Not all coronavirus news is bad. Two good reads here:

[Alex4Martinez]

First, from the good news network:

10 Positive Updates on the COVID-19 Outbreaks From Around the World
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/10-positive-updates-on-the-covid-19-outbreaks-from-around-the-world/

Second, from Atlantic:

What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/inspiring-galvanizing-beautiful-spirit-2020/608308/

Governor Newsom gave a really encouraging public statement this week:

Stay safe and stay in, my friends. We can do this.

[crickets]

1. Thanks for posting this. It's all too easy to focus on the scary bits and miss the good news.

It's going to get worse in the US before it gets better, but it will get better. People are working on the problem and making headway in spite of the tangerine toddler. It's a balancing act keeping up with the news without getting overwhelmed, and it's important to look for the little patches of blue sky from time to time.

[Igel]

2. It's very likely to get worse before it gets better.

But there's a speck of hope ore in yesterday's death numbers for the US. (New case numbers aren't meaningless, but too ambiguous for much use.)

Let's hope the one-day change presages a trend.

But beyond the big scary headlines are the case and death numbers by regional area. The US is big enough that if you factor out a few areas--Washington State, NY(C), and California things aren't nearly so scary. I'm assuming that the numbers aren't too far off and errors are random. It's been 8 days since many places started a lot of social isolation and deaths caused by infections earlier than that should have started rolling in. We saw those in some areas, but not for others.

In other words, there's a good chance that while "The US was too late in responding," given the distribution of the virus in the US, *most* of the US wasn't too late in responding. It was specific areas that had the virus earlier where the curve's been a bit steep.

[StarryNite]

3. Thank you for sharing.