OMG! Not Another Blog! -- And Finally, A New Word For The Day: In-Covfefe -- September 18, 2020

It's come to this. I can't take it any more. It's either this or I'm going to jump out my window to commit suicide.  Don't worry. I live on the first floor. LOL.

For various reasons I have a blog called "Schwa Nation." 

It looks like I need to start a new blog: "Covid Nation."

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Something Screwy Going On In Fargo

Ever since I started posting updates regarding Covid numbers coming out of Fargo, The Bismarck Tribune has quit tweeting that data. Yup, they're reading the blog. But another mystery solved: why the case numbers are so high in Fargo:

Why Covid case counts don't matter (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota), from a reader:

As usual, I agree with you.

However, another caveat....

These states have such low populations.  When college kids came back, they had to be tested.

Fargo has 100,000 people - Grand Forks is half that size.

Each of those schools had an enrollment of 13,000 students.  So, you test maybe 20,000 kids (allowing for some shrinkage), add in a couple thousand faculty, admin and support staff,  and of course your "case" numbers are going to skyrocket.

But, as you know, all that a "case" is is a positive test.  There are no hospitalized college kids.

And the media wants to act as if Sturgis were Armageddon.

Of course, that doesn't explain the incredibly high number of Covid-related deaths being reported out of Fargo. 

But Covid case reporting is absolutely irrelevant, inaccurate, and in-covfefe.  

If interested:

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Word of the Day: In-Covfefe

 Funk & Wagnall's:

in-covfefe: an inaccurate and irrelevant data point that is so off-base that no source for the information will ever be found.

Example: plastic straws will lead to the extinction of the baby blue whale.

        How to use "in-covfefe" in a sentence: "That's not even fake news; that's in-covfefe." 

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Coffee Cups

Four years and forty gazillion tweets later, and we get one coffee cup.

Can you imagine how many coffee cups Joe Biden will sell just after one month in office? LOL. I can hardly wait. 

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Its Own Wiki Page

This tells me the "wiki foundation" has more more money and more time on its hands than needed.