by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

Sanctuary Washington State is likely to wind up with the first bunch of deaths due to Coronavirus.

It has been announced that 27 residents of a long-term care facility in Kirkland (a nursing home) and 25 of the 180 staff are symptomatic.  There is no way to control that in a typical nursing home facility as those facilities are not designed for, nor can they be retrofitted to deal with, infectious disease to any material degree.  Given the degree of spread already this situation has clearly been ignored or swept under the rug instead of the facility being instantly closed when the first case was detected.  This sort of “deny, deflect and ignore” bullcrap is exactly what I expected out of the virtue-signalling leftists in that part of the country.

This is a clear warning to you who live in such a place: The government will ignore, conceal or outright lie until they can’t and by then you will have been exposed.

Further, given the mortality profile on this virus — let’s face it, nearly everyone in such a facility is squarely in the category of those at high risk of death due to age and most have serious co-morbidities or they wouldn’t be in a nursing home I would not be shocked if anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of the total residents there (that’s anywhere from ~10 to 25 out of the 108 residents) wind up dead within the next 2-3 weeks.

Isn’t that special?

What’s even better is that the 25 symptomatic staff have been running around the greater Kirkland area while presumably contagious sharing the love with everyone in town.  Again, if you’re not old and/or infirm then the odds that this thing gets you in a serious way are low — you’ll probably get it, it’ll be a mild annoyance and that will be that.

But if you are morbidly obese (the common words for that is ridiculously fat, folks), diabetic, immuno-compromised or (God forbid) have any sort of material lung disorder such as COPD then the odds are rather good that thanks to your wonderful State Government and its policies including their intentional blindness and obfuscation you’ve got an imminent appointment with St. Peter.

How’s that virtue signalling bull**** working out for you folks?  Is “blue” the color of your political party or is it the cyanosis as your lungs fill up with fluid and you literally drown in it?

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