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Covid update 6/11/20 From Colorado USA

Colorado continues to do well (comparatively) to the rest of USA. Roughly 200 new *DETECTED* cases a day, with a "surplus" of testing capacity. (Testing positivity rates also remains below 5%.) Out of 5.5 million population. Colorado is currently well below ICU bed and ventilator capacity.

Colorado has one of the youngest and healthiest populations in the US, and outside of Denver, remains a "spread out" state in many ways. However Arizona (of which, borders Colorado via a corner) is likely to exceed it's hospital capacity within the next week.

Nearly all the major hotspots in Colorado are: Meat packing plants, prisons, and nursing homes, as well as a few food stores.

Colorado is now more than a month past initial "re-opening" and more services continue to open up further. Restaurants are allowed to open up "distanced" indoor dining now. (and restaurants obviously involve taking masks off, and likely handling of shared surfaces/utensils. We will see if all the protest/riot activity causes an increase in covid cases.

In the more liberal areas of Colorado, masks are still a common sight, but outside of these liberal areas, it seems increasingly "bad form" socially, to wear a mask. Being associated with being "fearful" rather than prudent with an easy and effective tool.

In many ways, right now other then masks, front range Colorado has returned to mostly: "business" as usual. Minus lack of crowds (outside of protests in Denver) and masks wearing. Colorado had arguably the best economy out of any state in 2018 and 2019, making the state better positioned than most to handle this crisis.

The virus has mostly left the cities/rich areas and is doing its damage in the vulnerable populations across USA. Until recently, media has mostly moved on from covid, in covering the latest tRump shenanigans and the protests/riots.

In my opinion systemic racism, especially by cops is an issue that needs to be and should of long ago been addressed, but the timing of the protesting is obviously not good. At least it is occuring in the summer, near summer solstice, letting the sun do its work to annihilate the virus (direct sun kills most of covid in seconds,) and the protest are being done outside. And it is election year, a lot of democrats will now build their platform around police brutality reform.

Until the drop in markets today, (and really even including today's drop,) the US markets continue to recover, despite the devastation on mainstreet. Making it obvious that Wall Street is little influenced by what is going on, on mainstreet. Wall street is for the rich, and the very rich continue to get richer despite a global pandemic and protest/riots.

Future predicting:
New case count will continue to climb for US, but death RATE will continue to drop, (the total death count will accelerate some.)

Schools/daycare will resume in the fall, (pretty much because they have to,) which will also accelerate case count. It appears US has started to become accustomed to the new reality that medically vulnerable people will be dying at a greater rate. With no major changes unless frontline medical services become overwhelmed in a large geographical area.

I unfortunately predict that early November elections will be a disaster, (in terms of long lines to vote and voter suppression,) but my prediction that tRump loses in Nov continues to be supported by the latest polling data. Which is starting to see a 10+ swing towards Biden, so the question becomes: will it be a peaceful transfer of power?

My guess to above question unfortunately, is "no."

Also the virus hotspots are now currently more conservative areas instead of more liberal areas, as conservatives (especially those that listen to tRump)generally are less likely to observe distancing, mask wearing, or get tested before they start spreading it to others. Conservatives are also more likely to go to large gatherings indoors, like the perfect storm of transmission, churches.