Hidin' Biden; Tesla; Apple; And, Edith Piaf -- All On One Page -- October 3, 2020

Before we get started, a reader pointed out that Joe Biden is scaling back his campaign appearances. LOL. Hidin' Biden. Scaling back. How can he scale back from isolating in his basement?  I replied to the reader:

Know who is getting 99% of the press now? President Trump. LOL.

Trump is getting more coverage now than ever. And his adversaries are even praying for a speedy recovery. LOL.

There is absolutely no news about Biden. He's going to have to test positive, be admitted to a hospital, and, be linked with Jeffrey Epstein to get any news on the front page.

 Okay, back to more serious stuff.

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Breaking News

Michigan: Supreme Court says governor overstepped authority. Okay.

Cam Newton: NE Patriots QB tests positive. Apparently the Sunday game will be postponed for a day or two. Not sure why. Cam Newton will be quarantined for fourteen days. Oh, that's why. The NE Patriots need another day or two to work with the back-up QB. The coach says they have good depth at that position. Okay.

Long way to go. Quick! Pop quiz:

• population of California: ?
• number of Californians who have tested positive for the Chinese flu: ?
• most conservative number expected to test positive by end of this pandemic (as a ratio or percent): ?

Answers:

• 40 million (population of California)
  
• 826,690 (number of Californians who have tested positive so far)
  
• one-third or 33.3% (most conservative number based on Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
  

Doing the math:

• one-third of 40 million = 13 million

• Let's say, just 10% test positive, that's still four million. A long way to go. 
• 826,690/9 months = 100,000 / month
• 4 million / 100,000 / month = 40 months -- and that's just 10% of the population
• and 10% comes nowhere near "herd immunity"
• I believe herd immunity is about 65% (+/- with vaccine) -- let's check -- Mayo Clinic-- wow, not bad for a wag: 70% according to the Mayo Clinic.
  

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Tesla: 3Q20

Link to WSJ.

• quarterly deliveries hit new record for Tesla
• forecast by analysts: 137,000 deliveries
• actual: 139,300 (I love the round number, exactly 139,300)

Fell short of Tesla's earlier, loftier projections, January 3, 2020, had once predicted:

• 500,000 vehicles in 2018;
• 1 million vehicles in 2020;

It is what it is.

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Apple Promotes Another Old White Man

Link here. 

Greg Joswiak: to worldwide marketing. 

This is "marketing," not software development, or CFO. Couldn't find a qualified woman?  BLM? Tim Cook speaks a good game; doesn't deliver.

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How Covid Broke Times Square

Link to WSJ. An incredibly long article. Poor hook to begin the story. But that's beside the point.

Do a word search: Bill de Blasio; mayor; governor, Cuomo. Not there.

Be sure to read the comments.

A couple examples. First:

I was ordered home from Italy on March 13, landed at JFK, whisked through customs and soon bordered (sic) rush-hour subways. I was shocked that after leaving operating room-like PPE controls in Rome, that so few New Yorkers were wearing masks while social distancing resembled the proverbial sardine can. 

This was MARCH 13! I learned later Mayor DeBlasio rode subways in late February and other officials urged New Yorkers to descend on Chinatown for Chinese New Year all in defiance of the pandemic threat. 

To think the leaders of the world's greatest international travel destination, and largest Chinese population outside of China, somehow thought NYC would be immune to the global pandemic shows their arrogance and stupidity, and yet they escape blame for inviting COVID-19 to rage in the United States. And that was before Gov. Cuomo ordered nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients, when the absolute only thing we knew about this disease was that it was an efficient killer of old people.    

Another:

My lord! Did I just read an entire column twice and use the "Find" function on my laptop to find any reference to the mayor and governor of NYC and NY, respectively?   No mention whatsoever of mandated "lockdowns" and closures?

A whole article with only three references to "crime"...one referencing the '70's, one for 2007/9 recession and only one about a robbery?

What in the world has happened to the WSJ (or is it the "Wsj"?)  How in the world did an editor allow this?   Rhetorical....good lord, indeed.

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Je Ne Regreete Rien

Je Ne Ne Regreete Rien, Edith Piaf