Thursday, April 16, 2020

Corona Virus: Part 3

The date for easing restrictions here in North Carolina is coming into focus.  I am predicting May 15th.  I am assuming that over the next two weeks the we continue to see declines in the number of new cases, number of hospitalizations, and number of infected.  

We need additional data on the number of hospitalizations,  capacity of health care system and data on test kits.  How many test kits will be needed vs. availability.  Very little data on these as of today.

There is growing pressure to ease restrictions earlier.  If that happens we plan to maintain our stay-at-home until May 15th regardless.

I have goals for our isolation time:

- finish Shelby Foote's The Civil War.  Just started the fourth volume.
- finish the Great Course on Modern Political Theory
- finish the Spong lecture
- catch up on back issues of the Economist
- catch up on back issues of Foreign Affairs
- complete all spring yard work; all leaves mulched, all limbs collected and burned
- maintain weight at 160 or less

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