Today is 19 June, I typically write a bit earlier before I post so... This will be posted on 22 June...
And the latest graph looks like the below.
And now, the daily cases have almost doubled and looks like it's going to get higher.
The highest spike you see at the far right of the picture is on 16 June with 4098 cases for that day.
Now... Of course, Texas is BIG. So the numbers might not be as intuitive for readers.
BUT the land size is significantly larger. So that's not reflective.
I stay in Harris County. The place with the highest COVID cases in Texas.
Harris County has a population density of 2,302 per square mile.
1 square mile = 2.59 square km
So that equates to 888 people per sqkm.
Singapore has 8,358 people per sqkm.
Singapore has above 40,000 COVID cases. Of which, most are foreign workers.
BUT, all these numbers are retrospective. Meaning, they look back.
Cos... we already know the people who ARE infected, they are probably in a hospital or supposed to be under quarantine. So I'm not too concerned about the numbers which are ALREADY shown.
What I'm concerned with is the TREND!
The problem with Texas, is that, the number are increasing due to the reopening.
The thing about it is... many people are thinking like the virus has disappeared. Once the states started reopening, people just went out like nobody's business. It's like life is back to normal again.
People are going to supermarkets without masks, restaurants are getting crowds again... life starts again as though COVID is over...
It's truly a false sense of security, or maybe stupidity. Just cos the Government reopens businesses, people think it's all ok already.
IT'S NOT!
And I hope readers in SG remember that. The virus is still around and cases might spike again in SG if people aren't more careful about it.
Currently, I'm not too concerned. Life is still normal for me. I still go out to the supermarket once every 2-3 weeks. I try t go early when there's less people. Then I stay at home most of the time.
In the morning, 7am, when there's no one around, I sometimes go to the rooftop pool at my apartment and walk around the pool for some fresh air.
Maybe we might go and dabao some food if we feel like eating out. We've been doing that more often these days. Around once a week, we drive to the restaurant, order and get back into the car.
I think... American culture really isn't suitable to handle any pandemic. EVER...
They just don't care. They don't want to stay at home, they don't want to wear masks, they just don't care.
Culturally, they think it's no big deal. Well... not all of them, but enough of them that don't care that makes things bad enough for everyone.
They fail to take things seriously, until it gets really really bad, which might be too late.
Even now, I have no idea when I'm going to go back to SG.
I can't go back for a home trip, cos I'll need to quarantine for 2 weeks, then I might as well not go back to SG, cos I'll be stuck in a hotel room.
It's quite sad, cos I have no idea when this is going to blow over. Means I might not be able to go back to SG for another 6 months to a year. As long as the quarantine is in place, it makes no sense for me to fly back. Unless my wife is sent back by the company. Then of course we'll fly back and stay in quarantine.
But besides that... looks like I have no idea when COVID will blow over, cos in the US, it looks like it's going to be a long long battle. COVID is really here to stay, in the US at least.
The ridiculous thing is... they... the Americans, started the battle against COVID in Feb/Mar... they shut down their economy, and before things got better, they reopened again, and COVID is starting to spike again...
So they screwed up their economy for nothing. If they were going to do a half @#$% job, then they might as well have just followed in Sweden's footsteps and kept the economy going without any shutdowns.
Cos at the rate this is going, looks like we're back to square one. And the states which used to be quite safe, like Texas... is now going to get a whole lot more cases.
Whereas states like New York which used to be terrible... well, their trend is showing great improvement.
Oh well... not like I can do anything about it.
Just have to tahan and see how things turn out in the next few months. Hopefully it's only going to be a few months and not years.
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