So looking at the data. New hospital admissions 7 day is at 3,268. Still coming down but at a slower pace of reduction then in the past. Were average 10% week of week reduction and now down to only 4% lower than last week. Anectdotally one guy in our office got covid and another person's kid got covid. So still around. Simirialy the fatality rate week over week reduction is also slowing down. Latest value is 338 per day. Looking at the death by age chart, statistically 99% of people dying are over 75+ age, all other lines are at the 0 mark on the chart.
Good news in the UK, which has the best data, where they had a slight increase in cases that started in early Septemember, that increase already seems to be leveling off and was only 33% the peak of the previous covid waves.
So looks like that Covid cases will continue to decrease over time as herd immunity due to natural infection looks to finally be happening.
On my favorite topic, was flying last week and this week. Just shocked on the amount of masks I saw in the airport and on the plane. I estimate maybe 15% of people had masks on. So from what I am seeing, I am adding one more type of person to the previous list of 3 majors:
1. Old people. See a lot of elderly people with masks on. Cannot blame them for being careful.
2. Asians and Black people. I would say over 50% of the black people I saw in the airport and on the plane were wearing masks. Next to Asians, by far the demographic with the most mask wearing.
3. Hipsters. Wearing them for social reasons. Best one was the guy in line at the coffee kiosk this morning in the terminal. Hipster wearing his vans, Tshirt so he could show off his tattoo arm sleeve that had just been started, backwards cap, low hanging jeans, and the dude had a large beard. So he is wearing a cotton mask over a huge beard. I almost asked him what he thought the cotton mask over his beard was doing for him.
4. My new category. Hypochondriac and germ phobes. Flight attendant on the plane was wearing a mask. So the bell rings for everybody to put away their laptops and put the tray tables in their upright and locked positions. So after I am done, I hop up quick to goto the bathroom. The flight attendant (the one wearing the mask) is up in the galley and I watch him take out his sanitizer bottle out of a zip lock bag and proceed to put a generous portion on his hands and rub them vigoursly. After he is done, he puts another big squirt on his hands and does it all over again. So when I now see your average non-hipster, non-old person wearing a mask, I think it is because they were also germaphobes/hypochondriac and that the ability to wear a mask just feeds into that.