Friday, May 01, 2020

Louisiana Covid Count - Day 47

On this, the 47th day of the Covid lockdown, we turn to the Louisiana Dept of Health for the depressing numbers.

It seems that we're reporting 28,711 cases today.  That's 710 up from yesterday.
Fatalities are reported at 1927,  that's 65 more than yesterday.
Hospitalizations are reported at 1607, that's five (5) more than reported yesterday.  Of those, 230 are on ventilators, one less than yesterday.

My home parish of Rapides is reporting 270 cases, with the same ten deaths we've been reporting for a week.

We rode to Jena this morning to see the maw-in-law.  She's doing fine, getting stronger every day.  We took her a catfish plate from a local restaurant.

We stopped at the grocers on he way home to pick up some essentials.  It's easy to see that the peasants are getting fidgety.  We're not yet in open revolt, like other states, but we're getting impatient.  Very impatient.  It's time to end this nonsense.

UPDATE** The Louisiana Dept of Health is reporting that the spike in cases since yesterday is the result of a reporting glitch.
"Today, the [Louisiana Department of Health] reports 710 new cases, of which 381 came from two labs that are new to reporting. These labs previously have not reported and are now reporting all their historic lab results electronically," the department said Friday. 
C'mon, guys, get your head out of your asses.  We're looking at these numbers daily, and if we start hearing about reporting glitchees, we're going to lose faith in your reported numbers.  The actual number of new cases today is 329, a decrease from the 341 new cases they reported yesterday.

2 comments:

robert orians said...

The incompetence of this whole fookin' government is mind boggling . Fro the feral feds to the loony locals they are living high on the hog while working class folk suffer and die poor . I just read about 70 old vets that died up in the North East in a Veterans home . It's high time to stop the waste and foolishness . Or burn it all down and salt the earth .

Termite said...

The interesting thing about JBE is that because he was a military man(Airborne, Ranger School), he knows better than to push the American people too far. He may be "liberal", but unlike his non-military fellow "liberals", he can read the mood.

Gotta give him credit for that. He definitely does not want what is happening in Michigan. That Governor Gal, with no military training, has no clue about "situation defusement".

My thoughts: "Don't create 15 Timothy McVeigh's". It won't end well for anyone.