Some of the towns with the oldest population in the state are located in the Adirondacks and Catskills. Those communities may ultimately see some of the highest numbers of death rates as part of the population due to Coronavirus. It really could hit Rural America hard as many of the healthier youth have moved away to the cities for work.
Data Source: US Census Bureau. S0101. Age and Gender. Population Over Age 75. http://data.census.gov/
The U.S. government has abruptly terminated funding for a years-long research project in China that many experts say is vital to preventing the next major coronavirus outbreak.
The project was run by a U.S. nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance. For more than a decade the group has been sending teams to China to trap bats, collect samples of their blood, saliva and feces, then check those samples for new coronaviruses that could spark the next global pandemic. The idea is to identify locations that need to be monitored, come up with strategies to prevent spillover of the virus into human populations and get a jump on creating vaccines and treatments. Already the project has identified hundreds of coronaviruses – including one very similar to the virus behind the current outbreak.
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to trigger the sharpest recession in the United States since the Great Depression. An early signal of that came Wednesday, when the Commerce Department said the economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate in the first three months of the year — the first quarterly contraction since 2014 and the largest since the Great Recession.
For the first 2 1/2 of those months, the economy was chugging along at a steady, if not spectacular pace. But the plug was suddenly pulled in mid-March — when bars, restaurants and retail shops were abruptly closed and tens of millions of Americans were ordered to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly disease. Deluge Continues: 26 Million Jobs Lost In Just 5 Weeks Coronavirus Live Updates Deluge Continues: 26 Million Jobs Lost In Just 5 Weeks
The first-quarter drop was the biggest since an 8.4% dive in the fourth quarter of 2008. It marked a reversal from the 2.1% growth rate at the end of 2019.
Tomorrow is going to be really wet. Unfortunately I have a meeting I have to drive to tomorrow, but the windshield wipers work well on Big Red. We need the rain too — it’s been fairly dry lately and this will help us overcome the rain deficit.
Rainfall forecast Thur. and Fri is quite the kolidescope of color. This is because rainfall amounts will be both…
Posted by Steve LaPointe Wrgb on Wednesday, April 29, 2020
You too can own an official Donald John Trump Coronavirus commemorative coin to remember the good times of social isolation. Why would you one might ask? I don't know, maybe if your a Trump fanatic or have a love one who really likes him. Honestly though, I am not fan of politician worship.
Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Partly cloudy and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. But it ain’t expected to last.
I went for a walk this morning before work 🚶 and it was definitely a nice spring day. I’m going to work outside for a few hours and then maybe go down to the library for a few hours to work down there. 📚 Probably won’t be sunny by then but if my laptop is charged I won’t need the battery so much.
I am pretty sure I have Lyme disease from the tick bite I got on Saturday 🐜 but didn’t discover until last night. I’m achy and sore in my knees and feel just as shitty as I did five months ago before I took my doxycyline. 💊 I am just waiting for a bulls eye rash to appear 🎯so I can do that telemedicine crap 📞 and get the magic antibiotics and feel better at least for a while. At least I won’t have to sit in the lobby or the doctors office all morning before getting run through the cattle shoot for a thirty second visit with the doctor 😷. If you’ve ever watched how they vaccinate cattle herds on ranches, you’ll understand the doctors office experience in normal times.
I don’t know how I ducking 🐦 got a tick bite the same place as in October – my arm pit. 🙋 Dang it. I wish I found that tick on Saturday pulled it with the key 🔑. I should have checked but I was tired that night after getting up at five am to observe wildlife at Black Creek Marsh Wildlife Management Area. All day I was wearing a long sleeve shirt 👚 so I just don’t understand. Crawled into my arm pit. Duck.
Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 1st. South wind 9 to 15 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1888. 1 inches of snow fell back in 1885.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62° from the due south horizon (-8.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:15 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (285°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (291°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 6 seconds with dusk around 8:24 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (236°) at an altitude of 60° from the horizon, 233,537 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:02 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 62 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the south-southeast with gusts up to 28mph. Today will have 14 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 31 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be scattered showers, mainly after 1am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 47 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 15th. South wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1874.
I’m looking forward to the heavy rain come Thursday and Friday. 💦 I’m fine with cloudy days as long as they produce something worthwhile. It was pretty bone dry out at Partridge Run this weekend when I got my tick bite and with the somewhat tardy spring 🌷 I was pretty worried about having a fire out at Rennselearville State Forest and burning down the woods.
I’ve been working on figuring out the issue with my blog sometimes not uploading things properly. 📤I think I found the bug 🐞 and will patch it and upload a new series of Coronavirus maps this afternoon. 🌐 I wish I was a better coder and had fewer bugs in my code.
I really should this afternoon research and make up my mind about what I want for a picnic table tent 🎪. I have a feeling it will make black fly season and summer vacation so much nicer having shelter outside of my truck cap especially on hot and buggy days. Yes, I can sit in my truck cap next to the fan but it’s kind of tight to spend all day there. I hate using tons of DEET and Picardin when just hanging out at camp. 🐜 There not that expensive and I’ve been saving to buy one since December.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 69. Maximum dew point of 46 at 5pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.
I’d still like to get up north this weekend but I don’t see how that happens with the forecast. ⛺ It’s not going to be cold but I don’t see the clouds and rain showed pulling out until Saturday midday. Maybe I wait another week. I do want to hike that trail that’s been on my bucket list 📃 since the winter but on a few more weeks things will be a lot more green. 🌿
Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 85 and 56 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.