SPX S&P 500 2-Hour Chart; Overbot; Negative Divergence; Upper Band Violation

The SPX 2-hour is topped-out and should receive a neggie d spankdown to begin the week (red lines). Price floats higher printing matching or higher highs but the chart indicators are sloping down; negative divergence. It tells you that price is out of gas and will receive a slap-down.

The SPX runs higher along the upper band so that violation opens the door back down to the middle band at 3983 and lower band at 3918. The stochastics are overbot agreeable to a pullback and the RSI has been at or near overbot levels twice over the last 2 weeks.

The blue arrows show the tight standard deviation bands. Tight bands forecast a big move but do not predict direction. In October, the tube of toothpaste squirted higher. In early November, the tight bands shot the SPX lower. A few days ago, the tight bands squeeze price higher.

The Aroon is at maximum bullishness with the green line at near 100% and the red bear line down at 0%. Perhaps a red above green cross is coming.

A neggie d spankdown is on tap for the SPX 2-hour timeframe unless positive news hits the tape and keeps the party going. The 3983 is a logical first target.

The downside should be short-lived since the SPX daily chart remains bullish with a long and strong MACD that wants another price high in the daily timeframe. However, the daily chart is also getting close to topping out probably in the week ahead. Thus, stocks will likely be soggy on Monday perhaps into Tuesday but then should perk-up and rally again and make another high above 4034 on the daily chart. This information is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Do not invest based on anything you read or view here. Consult your financial advisor before making any investment decision.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Chronology Article 95 Published 11/22/22; Global COVID-19 Hotspots Are China (including Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil; 3 in 5 New Covid Cases Worldwide Are in Japan and South Korea; Pandemic Inches Towards Endemic Phase; Multiple Variants at Play Worldwide; BQ1 and BQ11 Variants Account for One-Half (50%) of US Covid Cases but a New Fall/Winter Infection Wave is Not Yet Occurring; 1-1/2 Times More Americans Have Died from COVID-19 Under President Biden (662K) than Former President Trump (441K); World Reports 644 Million Total China Virus Cases and 6.63 Million Deaths; US Reports Over 100 Million Total COVID-19 Infections and 1.103 Million Deaths; Dr Fauci’s Final Press Briefing Turns Chaotic When Asked About Origins of COVID-19; Violence Breaks Out at Foxconn (Hon Hai) Apple Plant in China Due to Covid Restrictions; 60% of US COVID-19 Deaths Are Vaccinated Americans; COVID-19 Infections Worsen in China and Japan; NIH Announces "MakeMyTestCount.org" Website for Reporting COVID-19 Test Results; Brazil Begins New BQ1 Variant Infection Wave Fueled by People Viewing FIFA World Cup Football (Soccer) Matches; President Biden Encouraged Canada PM Trudeau to Crush the Freedom Convoy Protesting Against COVID-19 Lockdowns and Restrictions; Protests and Riots Against China's Zero-Covid Policy Are Increasing; Only 11% of Eligible Americans Have Taken the New Covid Booster Shot; Fauci Says Another Booster May Be Needed in Spring 2023; COVID-19 Becomes a "Pandemic of the Elderly" with 90% of US Deaths Occurring in Folks 65 Years Old and Older; Multiple-Vaccinated and Boosted Former President Bill Clinton Tests Positive for COVID-19; US Covid Infections Rising after Thanksgiving Day Holiday

 

By K E Stone (Keystone)

The US hospitals are more concerned about the nasty flu and RSV outbreaks over the last month than COVID-19. All three are respiratory afflictions with common symptoms. Young kids hospitalized for RSV are being cared for in hallways and hospital cafeterias. The flu and RSV outbreaks are more serious in part because people, especially children, have been living in isolation for many months, during the pandemic, unexposed to viruses and unable to exercise the immune system.

But do not give the incompetent and greedy hospital managers a free pass for the overflow conditions at US medical facilities. Administrators choose to operate the hospitals on narrow bed margins for the sake of profits and when an overwhelming condition occurs, like now, that was inevitable to happen, the dirtbags are asking for government help. Such is the crony capitalism system breathing its last breaths.

The flu and RSV outbreaks are receiving the media attention while the aging COVID-19 pandemic is told to ride in the back seat. The big infection wave outbreak that medical officials warned everyone about for this Fall and winter may turn out to be regular flu and RSV instead of COVID-19.

The planet continues the transition from the covid pandemic to the endemic phase, when the virus will behave like the seasonal flu with comparable cases and deaths, but there are a few countries that remain mired in the coronavirus quagmire including China (including Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. Asia is a covid-infected nest.

Europe remains on the mend. The recent COVID-19 trouble across the pond was mainly a Germany, France and Italy problem, but cases are in retreat for the last 5 weeks. Infections are nudging higher over the last couple days in France and Italy so a hairy eyeball is required for the next few days. It is surprising that the nasty infection waves in these three European nations did not spread elsewhere to any great extent.

Remember the worries in the UK a couple months ago? All that doom and gloom went quiet. The UK is only seeing about 1K covid cases per day across the entire nation. The world is in good shape to make the transition into the COVID-19 endemic phase, some say we are already there, but the infection waves in Asia need snuffed-out before the victory flags can fly.

After 34 months, call it 3 years, of pandemic misery, it is humorous that humans hope and pray for an endemic. It is better to be isolating and recovering at home if sick with covid (endemic; flu-like) rather than getting carted away in a casket (pandemic). Everything is relative in life.

The path to the endemic phase is assessed with 8 metrics as explained at the bottom of the article so there is still work to do before comfortably confirming that the pandemic is over and the endemic phase is here to stay. At some point, the WHO will announce an end to the world’s COVID-19 pandemic.

The world’s daily new cases chart is shown above. The world reports 221K daily new covid cases for Sunday, 11/20/22, and the 7-day MA is at 342K cases per day favoring the sideways to sideways-down bias. The world’s cases remain stubbornly elevated (although low enough to compare back to 2020 levels) because of Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and daily cases lingering in other nations such as the United States, Germany, France and Italy. We are headed in the right direction towards the endemic phase but the progress is painfully slow.

The world’s daily new deaths chart is shown above. The planet dipped below 1K China Virus deaths per day for a few days last week but is now back above at 1.1K dead bodies per day. Trends begin in fits and starts so it is not surprising to see the death rate tease the sub 1K area then back away floating higher. It is standard technical analysis behavior.

More days under 1K covid deaths per day for the planet are on the come. The death rate is under 1.3K bodies per day which places it back to the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and a vote for the endemic phase. The chart shows worldwide deaths are lower or flat during the last three waves.

Asia is a covid hotbed. Japan’s daily new cases chart is shown above. It’s ugly. Japan reports 78K daily new cases for Sunday and the 7-day MA is a rocket ride to 85K cases per day heading higher. Covid is culling the elderly Japanese population. The peak for the infection wave thus far is 107K cases on 11/16/22 so the 11/23/22 cases (released 11/25/22) are key at determining if a top can form.

Japan’s active cases chart is parabolic at 3.1 million patients.  102 Japanese are dying per day from China Virus. 35%, or one-third, of all new COVID-19 cases worldwide are occurring on the island of Japan. That will get your attention. Sakura, in her 80’s, does not want to leave her minka. Japanese men need to leave the Geisha’s alone and go home to their wives.

South Korea’s daily new cases chart is shown above. It is another covid Hellhole in Asia. South Korea reports 46K daily new cases for Sunday and the 7-day MA is at 52K cases per day trying to flatten out. South Korea is more encouraging than Japan. The peak day thus far us 73K cases on 11/15/22 so the 11/22/22 cases, today (that will be known Thursday morning), are key in determining if the infection wave is ready to roll over (a week-to-week comparison).

The expectation is that South Korea’s covid cases for today will remain below last week’s peak at 73K cases painting a brighter picture ahead. 21% of the new China Virus infections worldwide, 1 in 5, are occurring in South Korea. Japan and South Korea together account for 56% of the new covid infections on the planet. Wow.

3 out of every 5 new covid cases on the planet are occurring in Japan and South Korea and G20 and global leaders have been lying in Asia’s covid-infected nest for the last couple weeks. 51 South Koreans are dying from COVID-19 per day many of those souls perishing in Seoul.

Indonesia’s daily new cases chart is shown above. Indonesia’s infection wave continues higher at 6.7K cases per day. World dignitaries, including President Biden and his entourage, have been comingling in Indonesia during the G20 meetings last week so these folks would begin testing positive this week if infected.

The Cambodian president tested positive for COVID-19 and was cheek-to-cheek with Dictator Xi for a couple meetings. Dirtbag Dictator Xi will never tell the world if he does contract China Virus since a dictator can never appear weak.

Indonesia’s peak day thus far is 8.5K cases on 11/16/22 so tomorrow’s cases, to be known on Friday morning, are key in determining the island nation’s covid path forward. 37 Indonesians are dying per day from covid.

China, including Hong Kong, is a covid Hellhole. The charts for China are not shown in the Coronavirus Chronology since the data from the CCP is always lies. Ironically, the initial China chart back in March 2020, nearly 3 years ago, was the first chart displayed by the Coronavirus Chronology.

COVID-19 cases are reported at about 25K per day across China, yesterday’s cases are another elevated number at 27,307 cases, but are more likely in the 75K to 150K per day range. The Worldometer data bakes in about 5K daily cases for China since the communists are confusing the world with different reporting methodologies. Common Chinese folks are sick of the zero-covid strategy including draconian lockdowns, mass testing and other strict rules and are pushing back more each day.

Dictator Xi’s zero-covid policy has been in place and the infections increase. That is called failure but do not say that around him or you will receive a bullet in your head. Less than 40% of the Chinese over 80 years old are vaccinated because they do not trust the government (CCP) or they realize the Chinese vaccines are junk.

Dictator Xi does not care if covid culls the elderly population since they are viewed as a burden to society under communism. Xi looks the other way as the Big White’s carry octogenarian Hui Ying’s lifeless covid corpse to the crematorium as if she never existed.

Brazil’s daily new cases chart is shown above. The 7-day MA is up to 15K cases per day ramping higher; not good. 30K cases are reported for Thursday and Friday a troubling sight. Saturday’s cases are 20K so the 7-day MA is going to continue higher. South America remains in good shape and avoiding new infection waves except for Chile and now Brazil. Chile is improving but Brazil is potentially falling into the covid rabbit hole.

Almost 10% of the new covid cases worldwide are occurring in Brazil; 1in 10. Brazilians need to place their colorful costumes and feather boas in storage, delay their waxing appointments, postpone the events and parties, and stay home for a couple weeks. Brazil’s daily new cases need watched over the coming days.

Germany’s active cases chart is shown above. This is the flatten the curve chart that must form the bell shape to prove the virus is being defeated and the Deutschland is on the road to redemption. The 7-day MA for Germany’s active cases is down to 460K and a move below 440K will take the patient load back to last year before the heinous infection waves plagued Europe; great news.

German healthcare workers finally catch a break after a long year of covid misery. In Germany, kiss a nurse, hug a doctor, buy the hospital janitor and cafeteria staff a draft, for they can finally celebrate a return to normalcy and the pandemic moving into the endemic phase.

The US daily new cases chart is shown above. The US reports only 15K daily new cases for Saturday and the 7-day MA is at 24K cases per day resuming a stronger downtrend. It is great news but would be even better if the 7-day MA for daily new cases dropped into the teens per day.

The daily cases need to drop towards and below 10K per day, a Fauci target, to declare the official end of the pandemic and start of the endemic phase. Wave 8 remains on a milk carton, like so many abused children.

The US active cases chart is shown above. The active cases drop to 1.3 million moving more sideways than down but with the daily cases starting to dip lower again the 1.2-handle should be coming soon. Wave 8 remains pals with Godot; it is nowhere to be seen. Let’s keep it that way. Wave 3 started in early October 2020 and wave 6 in late October 2021 and here we are a week away from December 2022 with no sign of the Fall/winter covid infection wave.

The US daily new deaths chart is shown above. 181 Americans continue dying each day from COVID-19. Deaths need to get into the 120 to 180 dead bodies per day range to be comparable to the regular flu season. It’s close.

It is shameful that President Biden is incompetent at lowering America’s covid death toll this year. Biden was voted into office to handle the pandemic but instead he spends his time cheerleading glorified golf carts (EV’s), windmills and solar cells. Biden’s misguided war on America’s hydrocarbon energy drives fuel prices through the roof creating inflation all this occurring as he watches a steady stream of covid coffins parade past his window.

The United States could not have had two worse managers during a pandemic than King Donnie Trump and Sleepy Joe Biden. Clown Trump was more concerned about his reelection campaign than handling the once in a century pandemic. Bozo Biden is busy tilting at windmills a la Don Quixote. The casket makers, undertakers, funeral directors and flower shops are sending thank-you cards to the Whitehouse.

The total cumulative COVID-19 deaths reach an interesting milestone as shown in the total coronavirus deaths in the United States chart above. Here is the headline; 1-1/2 times as many Americans have died from COVID-19 under Biden’s watch than under Trump. Granted, the pandemic was only in play for a year under Donnie and now almost 2 years under Sleepy Joe but Trump did not have the benefit of all the vaccines and therapeutics.

441K Americans died from China Virus through the inauguration on 1/20/21. These are Trump’s covid deaths. The total US coronavirus deaths are at 1.103 million which leaves 662K covid deaths on Biden’s hands. 662K/441K = 1.50. Any way you add it up, the pandemic death counts are a sh*t stew stirred by two incompetent chefs Trump and Biden.

1.1 million are a lot of dead American bodies. Remember when one, then three, then a dozen covid deaths were a big deal? Stalin would agree that 1.1 million deaths are now just a statistic. Happy Thanksgiving.

New Mexico’s daily new cases chart is shown above displaying a wave 8. Navajo Nation is wrestling with a bad covid outbreak over the last few weeks. The news affiliates in that area KNAU and ABC4 report 417 new cases and 2 deaths in Navajo Nation for the week ending 11/17/22. This is an improvement so with a little luck the Native Americans will get back on track.

The 7-day MA for New Mexico’s daily cases is at about 700 infections per day creeping higher, however, the individual daily cases peaked 1-1/2 weeks ago so the 7-day MA should roll over lower pointing to a more positive path ahead. The outbreak appears manageable and does not have the feel of something that will spin out of control. New Mexico will likely improve going forward.

Arizona is experiencing increased covid infections like New Mexico mostly due to Navajo Nation. During the last month, each time a state starts to log new infections the expectation is that trouble is coming but instead the cases peter out.

The infections from Canada moved south into Maine and New Hampshire that looked like the start of the Fall wave in the US but that petered out. Then it was New Jersey and New York, Illinois too, that showed cases popping so oh no, here we go, and then they fizzle out. It is a fantastic process to keep repeating. It is what we want to see to show that the pandemic has lost its gusto and is devolving into the endemic stage.

The latest worry is the southwestern states with the cases in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Kansas on the rise, but as the days play out, this regional outbreak is turning into a pig and a poke. No one will be complaining. They will be throwing confetti. Maryland cases were rising a week ago and now are slumping over again. The same great and welcome pattern repeats.

The bad US list below is thinning out again and will hopefully disappear. New York has a dead flat covid case count at 4K to 5K cases per day. Their data is likely skewed too high. It will be difficult to get the US case daily new cases down to 10K per day if New York keeps reporting 5K cases per day.

An investigative reporter, journalist, politician or any New Yorker that wants to make a name for themselves should explore why the covid cases count remains elevated to this extent. The politicians are likely padding the New York State numbers (reporting them higher than they are) perhaps to help the Whitehouse’s vaccination efforts (fear-mongering).

For comparison, major US states such as California, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania report daily new cases in the 1K to 2K range. New York is an outlier and their elevated cases continue for weeks on end. Are the New York hospitals receiving extra money for covid patients? An intrepid reporter, no doubt wearing a London Fog raincoat, will have to figure it out. Investigate the reporting of covid cases in New York State.

US hospital admissions for COVID-19 are rolling over again a beautiful sight especially in that 70 years old and older crowd that are most greatly impacted by covid. Great news.

US COVID-19 hospitalizations also take a wonderful dip lower now at 19K patients. Keystone will eat an extra turkey leg on Thursday to celebrate.

The CDC Community Transmission map is mostly green (low-risk for covid infection). 97% of the map is green or yellow with less than 3% of it the high-risk orange color. The high-risk counties have stayed at the 2.4% to 2.8% range over the last month. The orange needs to turn to yellow so the endemic phase can begin.

The CDC map and Keystone’s information match which is always a good thing. Keystone’s information is always ahead of the CDC. It is not surprising that the methodologies correlate since the CDC’s calculations for the map include daily cases but other fancy metrics like hospital beds are also factored into the map. The CDC does not need all that complication.

Simply use daily new cases like Keystone has for nearly 3 years and a superior product can be provided to the public. The reporting time can shorten and the map can be updated faster if the CDC focuses only on daily new cases. Keystone’s analysis and forecasts for the infection waves around the world and for the individual US states is unmatched during the pandemic; always first with the best insight. Said tongue in cheek, Keystone is the Father of Technical Analysis for Epidemiology.

The US vaccination rate is pitiful rolling over from 500K shots per day and this is from data nearly 2 weeks old. In corrupt America, the Whitehouse is likely telling the CDC to not update the US vax chart as often for fear of discouraging people from getting booster shots.

Nurse Goodbody is operating a vaccination clinic near the local mall. She said cobwebs are growing around her feet each day. She thought a man was stepping forward for a booster shot but it was the Amazon delivery guy. Goodbody said a tumbleweed rolled by a few minutes ago and she can hear crickets in the background. Americans are losing interest in the covid jabs and sick of being a vaccine pincushion every few months.

The USA has the greatest number of total coronavirus cases in the world at 100.3 million crossing the dreaded 100 million milestone. India is next with 44.7 million total virus cases. France, Germany, Brazil, South Korea, Italy, UK, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Spain, Vietnam, Australia, Argentina, Netherlands, Taiwan, Iran, Mexico, Indonesia, Poland and Colombia round out the top 22 worst nations for total COVID-19 cases. The only change over the last month is Italy leapfrogging UK.

COVID-19 has infected 643.6 million people worldwide. China (the CCP) owes reparations to the world for its sick heinous crime against humanity. 6.63 million people on Earth are dead from the China Flu a grim statistic. 622.7 million global citizens have recovered from the virus.

96.7% (622.7/643.6) of the people that become infected with COVID-19 recover in a reasonable time frame. The percentage remains steady for many months. Worldwide, 1.0% (6.63/643.6) of the people that are infected with covid die; 1 in 97 (hit the 1/x button on your calculator).

8.4% (643.6/7670) of the world’s population of 7.67 billion people have been infected with coronavirus; 1 in every 12 people on earth. 0.09% of the world’s population (6.63/7670) died from the pandemic so far; 1 in every 1,157 people on earth died from China Virus over the last couple years.

The latest census data shows that the world has crossed the 8 billion population milestone but the Coronavirus Chronology will continue using the 7.67 billion number for calculations to remain consistent. With a little luck, Keystone’s 3-year Coronavirus Chronology writing journey may end with Article 96 or 97.

In the United States, 100.3 million people have been infected with covid. 1.103 million Americans are dead. 97.8 million Americans have recovered from coronavirus. This equates to 97.5% (97.8/100.3) of US citizens recovering after becoming infected with COVID-19. Those are good odds. Most of the COVID-19 deaths are old or fat people and heaven help you if you are old and fat.

In the US, 1.1% (1.1/100.3) of the people infected with COVID-19 die. 1 in every 91 US citizens that are infected with coronavirus die. 0.3% (1/330) of Americans have died from COVID-19 which is 1 in every 303 Americans over the last 34 months.

30.4% (100.3/330) of the American population of 330 million people have been infected with covid. That is almost at 1 in every 3 Americans. The latest data and commentaries estimate about 80% of the US population has been infected with COVID-19 over the last 34 months (many positive tests and illnesses are not reported and some people did not know they had covid).

The United States has 16% (100.3/643.6) of the COVID-19 cases in the world. 1 in 6 people that become infected with covid on the planet are Americans. The US vaccination program made an impact month’s ago, but not so much in recent months.

The US accounts for 16.6% (1.1/6.63) of the China Flu deaths in the world. 1 in 6 people that die from COVID-19 around the world are Americans. A couple years ago, it was 1 in 5 so vaccinations helped.

The Keystone Speculator Coronavirus Infection Rate Model, the Keystone Model for short, is a simple model that predicts when the active cases (bell-curve) chart will flatten-out and roll-over lower. The active cases chart is the ‘flatten the curve’ chart that represents the maximum stress and strain on the medical system and healthcare workers. Once the active cases chart rolls over forming the bell shape, the virus is being defeated and healthcare workers can breathe easier.

The Keystone Model is very effective and reliable in predicting the peaks in active cases for countries and US states as shown over the last couple years. The bad country and bad US state lists below display the covid trouble spots around the world.

Another 10-day period passes and more data and information become available to push the China Virus story forward. The Coronavirus Chronology identifies the real-time covid hot zones occurring around the world and within the United States. The chronology serves as a historical document that will be referenced for decades to come by those that want to experience the entire pandemic as it unfolds in real-time.

The Coronavirus Chronology compilation of articles will be published in the future by Amazon and others and distributed internationally. This is Article 95 in the Coronavirus Chronology that provides real-time information for historians, teachers, students, journalists, economists, market participants, corporate executives, financial managers, Wall Street, doctors, nurses, medical personnel, first responders, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, neurologists, researchers, public officials, news organizations, traders, investors and politicians studying the COVID-19 pandemic both domestically (USA) and internationally.

This ninety-fifth article is published on Tuesday, 11/22/22. The Coronavirus Chronology series of articles are the only real-time source of information available continuously chronicling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic from early 2020 through 2022; it is the China Virus Bible.

Readers live and breathe the pandemic, the worst in a century, as it occurs in real-time, experiencing the daily virus zeitgeist, good or bad, devoid of political correctness. This is not revisionist history-telling. It is the raw pandemic truth and human emotion occurring, recorded and chronicled in real time, without any allegiance to political narratives or media spin. The information is direct and unapologetic. A chronology can be written no other way.

All 95 Coronavirus Chronology articles are archived on The Keystone Speculator blog. The last couple articles are linked below if you want to remain up to speed with the never-ending COVID-19 saga that may be finally moving into the endemic phase.

The ninety-third article is the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Chronology Article 93 Published 11/1/22; CDC Director Walensky Tests Positive for COVID-19 a 2nd Time with Paxlovid Rebound; US Education Secretary Cardona Tests Positive for Covid; US Wave 7 is Over but Worries Persist that the BQ1 and BQ11 Variants Will Create a Potential Wave 8 this Fall and Winter; World Continues Transition from Pandemic to Endemic; Global Covid Hotspots Include China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Chile; World Reports 636 Million Total China Virus Cases and 6.595 Million Deaths; US Reports 99.4 Million Total COVID-19 Infections and 1.095 Million Deaths; Pandemic Amnesty; “Homoborgenesis”; UK MP Bridgen Calls for Investigation into Correlation Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Excess Deaths; WORLD EXCEEDS 6.6 MILLION TOTAL COVID-19 DEATHS; New Covid Infection Waves in South Korea and Japan; 81%, or 4 in 5,  of New Covid Cases Worldwide are in Only 5 Countries (Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, US); New BM111 Variant Identified in Singapore and Indonesia; Covid Infections Increasing in South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and China;  Most Concerning Variants Are BQ1, BQ11, XBB (BA210), BF7 and BM111; US EXCEEDS 1.098 MILLION COVID-19 DEATHS A GRIM MILESTONE; Navajo Nation Outbreak; China Plans to “Unswervingly” Follow the Zero-Covid Strategy; Apple iPhone Production Hurt at Foxconn Facility; One-Third of Covid Cases Worldwide Are Occurring in Japan and One-Half in Japan and South Korea; US Covid Infections Increasing in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Idaho

The ninety-fourth article is the Coronavirus (COVID-19)Chronology Article 94 Published 11/12/22; World Continues Transition fromPandemic to Endemic; Global Covid Hotspots Include China, Japan, South Korea,Malaysia, Indonesia and Chile; President Biden and Dictator Xi Meet inIndonesia’s Covid-Infected Nest; 4 of Every 5 (83%) New Covid Cases WorldwideAre in Only 7 Countries (Japan, South Korea, US, Germany, France, Italy,Taiwan) and 2 of Every 5 (41%) New Cases Are in Japan and South Korea; World Reports640 Million Total China Virus Cases and 6.61 Million Deaths; US Reports 99.9Million Total COVID-19 Infections and 1.1 Million Deaths; Most ConcerningVariants Are BQ1, BQ11, XBB and BF7; US Covid Infections Increasing inSouthwestern States (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Kansas); NavajoNation Outbreak Continues; 800 Passengers Test Positive for Covid on MajesticPrincess Cruise Liner Docking in Sydney; Global Covid Death Rate Drops Below 1KBodies Per Day; Over One-Half of New COVID-19 Cases Worldwide Are in Japan andSouth Korea; Infections Rising in South Africa; US EXCEEDS 100 MILLION TOTALCOVID-19 CASES; BQ1 and BQ11 Variants Account for One-Half (50%) of US CovidCases; Infections Rising in Brazil; China Living a China Virus Nightmare

The Worldometer web site tracks coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world and its link is provided. Many charts in the coronavirus series of articles are provided courtesy of Worldometer and annotated by Keystone. The CDC COVID Data Tracker is another excellent source of information. The Worldometer, Johns-Hopkins and CDC data track each other well.

The active cases curves are moving higher (hospitals are seeing an increase in COVID-19 patients) for the countries listed below.

Australia (Seventh Wave)
11/4/22 New Case Peak Date
11/15/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days) (curve continues higher)
 
South Korea (Fourth Wave)
11/15/22 New Case Peak Date
11/26/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)
 
Japan (Eighth Wave)
11/16/22 New Case Peak Date
11/27/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)
 
Indonesia (Seventh Wave)
11/17/22 New Case Peak Date
11/28/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)
 
Brazil (Fifth Wave)
11/18/22 New Case Peak Date
11/29/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)
 
New Zealand (Third Wave)
11/20/22 New Case Peak Date
12/1/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)
 
China (including Hong Kong) remains in covid trouble as explained above. Dictator Xi sticks to the failed zero-covid strategy as the COVID-19 infections increase daily. Nearly 50 major cities and regions across China are in some form of lockdown and mass testing. Chinese folks are fed up with the restrictions but must be thoughtful as to how they speak out against the CCP making sure they cannot be identified.

Chile is taken off the bad list as daily new and active cases roll over to the downside. Ditto Malaysia. Brazil is added to the bad country list. Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru and other South and Central American nations require a hairy eyeball going forward.

New Zealand is in lousy shape with the new covid infection wave up to 3.5K cases per day. Australia also struggles with the ongoing outbreak. Asia and now the greater Pacific region is a covid-infected nest. South Africa was a worry a few days ago but cases have subsided again.

Central Europe is improving although as mentioned above, the daily new cases in France and Italy need to maintain the downward trend. Uzbekistan cases nudge higher and require monitoring. Kenya was a concern a week ago but not now as cases subside. The world is looking good from a covid perspective sans the Pacific nations.

The United States is also looking good with the bad states shrinking down to Arizona and New Mexico due to the Navajo Nation outbreak. The worries in the southwestern states are not materializing. America is in a good place as the holiday season approaches. Hopefully, the US bad list will disappear before the next article.

New Mexico (Eighth Wave)
11/10/22 New Case Peak Date
11/21/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days) (curve continues higher)
 
Arizona (Eighth Wave)
11/16/22 New Case Peak Date
11/27/22 Projected Active Case Peak Date (based on 11 days)

Kansas, Nevada, Utah and Maryland are removed from the bad list as their active cases charts rollover to the downside. It is becoming far more likely that a new Fall and winter covid infection wave 8 will not occur in the US. The southwestern states puffed their chests out over the last 2 weeks threatening to lead the nation into wave 8 but that turned out to be a whimper like the other states that tried to flex their covid muscles. Covid is having trouble finding host bodies.

States to watch include Texas, Indiana, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and the Dakota’s. Covid infections may be making their way into the United States from Canada. Perhaps increased infections are occurring due to more human and truck traffic running north-south across the Canadian border. Humans are interacting at truck stops, gas stations, greasy spoons, loading docks and rest stops. America needs that Canadian lumber.

Some US states have gone to weekly reporting of cases which may skew the data. The 7-day MA trendlines become more important since they smooth out the jumpy weekly data and provide a clearer picture.

The US COVID-19 pandemic must be moving into the endemic phase if the states and hospitals view the virus as less important now only requiring a report once per week instead of daily. The CDC has gone to a weekly reporting schedule so their slow data becomes even slower.

The Coronavirus Chronology is using 8 metrics to assess the pandemic to endemic transition. (1) The world’s daily new cases should be below 360K per day to claim endemic status and cases are now at 342K per day. Great news. (2) The world’s daily new deaths should be below 1.3K per day and they are 1.1K so this is a win for the endemic phase.

(3) For the United States to be in the endemic phase, the daily new cases should be below or around 10K cases per day and are now at 24K per day. (4) US active cases should be below 730K cases (at least below 1 million) now at 1.3 million getting there slowly. (5) The US COVID-19 death rate should be below 180 bodies per day now at 181 souls per day. Isn’t that a kick in the teeth?

(6) To declare the endemic phase in America, US hospitalizations should drop below 10K patients and are now at 19K. (7) The CDC Community Transmission map should turn completely green and yellow to usher in the endemic phase and 97% of US counties meet these criteria with less than 3% remaining in the high-risk zone. The map has been stuck at this status for the last month.

(8) Lastly, the public needs to accept that the pandemic is over and this is already in the endemic column since most Americans have resumed their normal lives and ignore the COVID-19 news.

There is a lot more work to do to declare the endemic phase. 3 of the guidelines are in the endemic phase and 5 remain in the pandemic phase. There is no progress over the last month but the future looks bright for America and the world nonetheless.

Asia and the greater Pacific nations need to get a handle on the covid outbreaks. New Zealand and Australia, both with rising covid cases, had a cruise ship traveling between them with 800 people on board that tested positive for COVID-19. What kind of incompetence is going on Down Under in the southern hemisphere where it is spring going into summer.

Shame on Australia for going woke and doing harm against citizens during the draconian lockdowns the last 3 years; all for naught. Old women were beaten and anyone that did not obey and worship the Aussie snake government were forced to kneel and do so.

Same under Queen Ardern in New Zealand. All that tyrannical totalitarian authoritarianism for nothing as cases rise daily in the green country (note the string of three ten-dollar college words).

Tyrannical leaders like Ardern and Canada’s King Trudeau, knowing that Jesus walked on water, have decided that they would like to do alittle walking, too. Baby King Trudeau, who dresses in black face at parties, went down the same woke road as Australia and New Zealand. It is sickening that our Canuck brothern are now sick wokesters. The United States is the last hope for the world citizens trying to hold up the liberty flag and fight back against wokism.

As per the CDC’s variant proportions data, BA5 is down to 24% of the new COVID-19 cases in the US. BQ11 is 24% and BQ1 is 26%. BQ1 jumps from 20% to 26% over the last week and is the number one variant in America. Taking the BQ’s together account for 50%, one-half, of the new US covid cases.

BF7 is at 8% of the cases, BN1 is 5%, BA46 is 4%, BA526 is 2%. Remember that the overall pie is shrinking and not getting bigger. The percentages of the variants change but the overall cases are decreasing each day. Since BA5 is in retreat, it is obvious that BQ1 and BQ11 are the two new swinging cocks in the covid chicken yard these days.

A rebuke of the BQ variants may be the final nail in the coffin, the last dagger through the heart of the pandemic, that will open the door to the endemic phase. COVID-19 is running out of host bodies.

Folks have been indoors in the US for the last 3 months and kids have been back in school nearly that long. It is great news that a wave 8 is not in play with all this human interaction occurring and during the season where covid is expected to spread. It is very good news indeed.

A Whitehouse press briefing with the incompetent press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the chick with three first names, turns into a three-ring circus. Dr Fauci is featured at the press conference which is billed as his last official public appearance before his retirement.

As usual, Fauci is carrying around the covid goalposts always changing the position so he looks good. The Fauch espouses long scientific words during his farewell speech like the typical insecure professor that wants everyone to think he is smart.

Fauci proclaims that there is plenty of hard clinical data now available on the new COVID-19 booster shots showing their safety and effectiveness. What does he care? He’s retiring. Dr Fauci’s final message is “get your updated covid shot.” Flip-flop Fauci remains derelict of duty for not telling Americans to get themselves healthy by eating right, exercising, maintaining a positive attitude and taking vitamins and supplements.

The American drug and surgery medical model enriches Big Pharma and the privileged class. People must take more responsibility for their daily health. In his farewell, Fauci does not mention natural immunity's role in fighting COVID-19. Of course he doesn't.

Dr Jha speaks next and then a Q&A period begins. The presser turns chaotic. Idiot Jean-Pierre tries to prevent journalists from asking Fauci about the origins of COVID-19. KJP yells, “I’m done with you” at the reporters asking about the tough questions. Fauci looks like he would rather be anywhere than standing on stage as his last appearance devolves into a chaotic circus. It is poetic justice. Fauci dude, you should have retired 20 years ago. Beatit.

The Whitehouse, CDC and NIH know the origins of COVID-19 and gain of function scandals stink to high heaven and the proof is with KJP causing a scene instead of simply turning to Fauci and asking him to answer the question about the origins of CVID-19. It is a messy presser with people shouting at one another.

Jean-Pierre loses control of the Whitehouse pressroom another example of her inept leadership. She is in over her head in that job and it would be a good idea for her to get on with her life’s work. The entire circus at the Whitehouse taking place minutes ago is a fitting end to Fauci’s failed leadership during the 3-year pandemic. The pressroom spectacle is an appropriate end to Fauci’s tenure; a microcosm of the chaotic and confusing pandemic.

Some people go fishing when they retire but Dr’s Fauci and Collins are going to their lawyers. The republican-controlled House will begin investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and the gain of function scandals come January. The American people need to know the truth about the handling of the pandemic under both Trump and Biden and the misinformation and disinformation coming from the Whitehouse, CDC, NIH, and others during the last 3 years mainly Fauci and Collins.

An article in the democrat-run media plants a seed for a potential future narrative concerning the COVID-19 vaccines. One of the most important health statistics over the coming few years will be the number of heart attacks and other heart issues, such as myocarditis, in the United States. If there is an increase in heart attacks over the next couple-three years, the scientists will have to figure out how many of the cases are attributable to the covid vaccinations.

The article mentioned talks about long-covid patients and states that there is an increased risk of heart attacks for these folks (puling data out of thin air). How convenient. The 100%, pro-vaccine for everything no matter what, scientific community must be lining up the excuses already.

When/if heart attacks increase in America (in large part due to covid vaccinations) over the next couple years, the eggheads already plan on blaming any increase on long-covid. The crony capitalism system corrupts all in the end. Let’s hope there is no increase in heart attacks in America over the next couple years but if there is, it is due to the vaccines. The truth will set you free.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/23/22, at 5:00 AM EST: Fauci and other medical talking heads now say that the COVID-19 threat for this winter is diminished. Maybe he says that since we are almost in December and US daily new cases continue trending lower? Thanks, Einstein. Fauci was warning of doom and gloom this winter only a few weeks ago. He said the BA275 and BA46 variants would wreak havoc; they are not. The BQ1, BQ11, BF7 and XBB bugs are the main variants at play around the world currently. Remember Dr Jha's fear-mongering? Jha said there would be 100 million covid infections this winter which was a ridiculous statement that now appears stupid, completely absurd and irresponsible. Jha was fear-mongering to convince Congress to provide more covid funding and at the same time push people to take the new booster shot. He failed on both counts. Do not look for new COVID-19 funding anytime soon from Congress and the vaccine uptake is pitiful as explained above. The Coronavirus Chronology deals in data and the direction of the pandemic has been encouraging the last few months. In the US, the prior Fall/winter infection waves had already started in October so it is great news to almost be in December with US cases continuing lower after defeating wave 7. The  transition from pandemic to endemic is at hand but give it a couple more weeks to make sure Navajo Nation improves and there are no other surprises across the country. Globally, China (including Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil are the countries that need to get their act together and stamp out the China Virus menace. A lesson learned from the pandemic is 'it's not over until it is over everywhere'. The United States was finished with the COVID-19 pandemic after wave 4 but the new variants out of India and then Zimbabwe/Botswana/South Africa brought America, and the world, to its knees. The endemic light is now visible at the end of the covid tunnel and thankfully, the bright light does not appear to be an oncoming variant pandemic train.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/23/22, at 6:00 AM EST: China's COVID-19 nightmare continues as China Virus wreaks havoc in the nation from which it was spawned. The Foxconn (Hon Hai) Apple manufacturing and assembly plant in Zhengzhou, that employs 200K workers, erupts into chaos and violence. In the overnight hours, the dormitories at the plant empty with irate employees attacking security cars and chasing back the Big White's (the CCP henchmen dressed in white hazmat suits that enforce Dictator Xi's zero-covid strategy; they maintain the Chinese population in lockdowns, make sure the people perform their daily covid testing, and drag anyone away, including their contacts, to an isolation camp if they test positive). Video clearly shows one of the Big White's beating a Foxconn worker with a big wooden stick. It is rare to see this level of violence in China. Bloomberg reports that the workers are upset over not receiving the wages promised, nor bonuses or subsidies. In addition, there are rumors at the facility that a new wicked outbreak is circulating creating panic. The employees are in lockdown at the plant, under the stupid closed-loop policy, so if you are a caged animal and know that a virus is circulating in that cage, wouldn't you want to get out? Apple iPhone production will obviously be further impacted going forward. It is surprising to see violence and uprisings by crowds in China since the CCP typically snuffs-out descent quickly with a heavy hand. No doubt the CCP is assembling names of all the workers involved and their lives will suck going forward. The communists are learning that you cannot treat humans like animals because after a while, the animals, er humans, realize they no longer have anything to lose. China is in a bad place seeing the rest of the world recover after the pandemic but they are mired in covid Hell. At the same time in commie China, a historic housing bubble is popping, there are food shortage worries due to the Ukraine War, and the winter winds are blowing chasing people inside to spread the China Virus further. China is eating the same coronavirus meal that it dished out to the rest of the world over the last 3 years and the communists are choking on it.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/23/22, at 7:00 AM EST: The world reports only 223K daily new cases for Monday and the 7-day MA is at 342K cases per day. 1,099 earthlings died from COVID-19 on Monday. Japan reports 42K daily new cases finally a lower number that provides encouragement that a top in daily cases may be on tap this week. Japan's 7-day MA for daily cases is up to 88K cases per day a terrible number. 110 Japanese are dying from covid each day. The crematoriums and urn makers are happy. South Korea's daily new cases may be stalling which would be good news this week. Ditto Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Brazil's daily new cases continue higher at 19K cases per day. South Africa reports 900 cases for Monday no biggie but it demands that a hairy eyeball be maintained on the southern African nation.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/23/22, at 7:30 AM EST: The US reports only 14K daily new covid cases for Monday a great number for a week day. The 7-day MA for US daily cases slips below 23K cases per day continuing lower. Keep it coming, baby. Things are going great, and only getting better, as Timbuck 3 sings.

Note Added Wednesday Afternoon, 11/23/22: The HHS creates controversy after suggesting that communities encourage, even mandate, masks to protect folks suffering from long-covid. Get serious, *ssholes. You do not ask an entire population to bend over for the needs of a few. Tell the long-covid folks to wear masks if they desire, but after the government's misinformation and disinformation on masks during the pandemic, it will be a hard sell to get the American public to buy into widespread mask use again. For gosh sakes, Japanese and Chinese folks have been walking around in mouth diapers for 3 years and Japan and China are the two worst countries with COVID-19 outbreaks right now in the entire world! Open your eyes and think independently instead of parroting the corrupt democrat (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS,  NBC, PBS, NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, etc...) and corrupt republican (Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, Brietibart, AM talk radio, New York Post, etc...) narratives and talking points. The democrat tribe is obviously pushing the long-covid narrative. As mentioned in the article above, the people in power are already planning to blame any future heart attacks on long-covid instead of the 900-pound vaccine gorilla sitting on the sofa. Long-covid will probably be a popular phrase espoused by politicians during 2023. Despite his retirement, the Fauci stink will linger for months to come. Fauci testifies in a deposition that is investigating the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the scandal of covering-up the Wuhan lab leak and instead promoting an animal origin theory. Less-redacted emails are surfacing further painting Fauci in a bad light. In the deposition, the doctor is saying 'he cannot recall much'. Of course not. He does not want to get twisted up in the lies. Fauci admits that he patterned the initial handling of the pandemic after communist China's approach. He blames that decision on Clifford Lane that was sent to China when the pandemic started. Fauci is quick to throw others under the bus while trying to boost himself in he public's eyes. Obviously, Fauci was the wrong guy in charge during a once in a century pandemic. The gain of function research that he, Collins, the NIH (US), NIAID (US), EcoHealth (US; Daszak) and Wuhan Laboratories (China) were involved with may have led to the pandemic. The world needs to know the truth. Fauci claims that he did not have the time to look at the Great Barrington Declaration which is a huge consortium of doctors treating COVID-19 patients with useful drugs, therapeutics, vitamins and supplements. The Great Barrington Declaration says since day one of the pandemic that the focus should be on the elderly and vulnerable people and yet Fauci and the other bozo's at the NIH, CDC and Whitehouse, chose to ignore the information. Vaccines are not eligible for emergency approval unless there are no other therapies or treatments available. This is why the corrupt US government squashed the noble and smart doctors that signed the Great Barrington Declaration, trying to destroy their reputations, because those useful and proven therapies and treatments for covid would have created delays in the emergency vaccine approval process. The crony capitalism system is corrupt to the core. The Fauci stink lingers.

Note Added Wednesday Evening, 11/23/22: The Washington, DC, school system (democrat-controlled) is requiring all students to take a COVID-19 test after the holiday before returning to school. Sickening, isn't it? Hey *ssholes, why not instead tell students, teachers and staff to take a covid test if they want, but if they do not want to, that is fine, too. It is not so hard to provide the correct advice to the public if you use common sense rather than thinking in terms of a corrupt political narrative, but that is what the United States is now. The control freaks do not want to give up the power they gained during the pandemic. One of the easiest ways to control people is through fear. Massachusetts is involved in a legal controversy that claims state officials conspired and colluded with Google to install spyware on Android smartphones during 2021 and 2022 without the users permission. The Massachusetts government and Google officials are spying on American citizens under the guise that they are tracking the COVID-19 pandemic. Do you think the phone taps mainly targeted their political opponents? Of course they did in the corrupt crony capitalism system. Massachusetts is downplaying the legal battle claiming the situation is blown out of proportion. This is what corrupt people say when they have no excuse for their corrupt unconstitutional actions. Throw them all in jail so they have time to think about it. Cynthia Cox, vice president at KFF, provides an analysis on the pandemic in the Washington Post's Health 202 newsletter showing that 60% of the US covid deaths are in the vaccinated and 40% unvaccinated. Cox decrees, "We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated." She will not be invited to the Whitehouse Christmas party disagreeing with Biden that has mumbled that mantra for the last 2 years. The study concludes that the elderly and people with comorbidities are most at risk for COVID-19. Duh. No sh*t, Sherlock. This is the basic foundation espoused by the doctors that sign on to the Great Barrington Declaration. The pandemic needed to focus on the elderly and those with preexisting conditions from the start but Fauci and the gang that couldn't shoot straight instead cheerlead the vaccine only strategy. Good riddance to that compromised incompetent. Many US officials have learned nothing during the pandemic or they have but are too embarrassed, and concerned about losing their cushy corrupt jobs, to admit their approach to the pandemic was wrong. The US medical system loses credibility over the last 3 years. People want to know the truth even if it is bad news. A leader knows such things and treats the people that follow with respect.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 11/24/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The world reports 437K daily new cases for Tuesday a slap in the face so the pandemic is raging on in Japan and China. The 7-day MA for the world's daily new cases edges higher to 356K cases per day bad news. Oh no. There's the culprit; Japan. The island nation reports 121K daily new case a huge and terrible number the most for the current infection wave and not seen in over 2 months. The 7-day MA for Japan's daily cases is up to 92K cases per day rising like a rocket. How's those masks and vaccines working out for you, Japan? 28%, which is 1 in 4 and moving towards 1 in 3, new COVID-19 infections worldwide are occurring on the island of Japan. 144 Japanese are dying from covid each day the most in over 2 months. In WWII, it was Tora! Tora! Tora! now it is Covid! Covid! Covid! The Foxconn (Hon Hai) trouble continues in Zhengzhou, China. Company officials are offering $1,400 to any worker that wants to quit and travel back home. This is equivalent to about 2 months salary and is supposed to be paid in two installments. It sounds like more commie promises followed by inaction. Apple is now directly involved in trying to resolve the Foxconn uprising. China reports over 31K daily new covid cases for yesterday a new record and the number is likely 3 to 5 times higher. It is a shame how the Chinese people are suffering under Xi's draconian lockdowns, mass testing and other covid restrictions but they must do what the CCP says or receive a bullet in the temple. When you look at an Apple iPhone in the future, will you think about the blood and violence at Foxconn (Hon Hai) and workers treated like caged animals during the covid outbreak? Probably not. Since the news is lousy today, why not more? South Korea reports 72K daily new cases for Tuesday an elevated number teasing towards the highs for the current wave. The 7-day MA for South Korea's daily new cases is up to 53K cases per day and ramping higher. Indonesia reports 7.6K daily new cases for Tuesday an elevated number with the 7-day MA at 6.5K cases per day. China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia remain mired in COVID-19 outbreaks holding back the planet from officially ditching the pandemic and entering the endemic stage. Brazil reports 22K cases for Tuesday, not good, so include it with that list of four other troublemakers. The never-ending pandemic is never-ending even when it looks like it is ending.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 11/24/22, at 5:00 AM EST: Happy Thanksgiving in the States. The turkeys are running for their lives. The US reports 30K cases for Tuesday and the 7-day MA is at 31K cases per day remaining jumpy. The Thanksgiving Day holiday and weekend is a big test for the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans will be hugging, kissing, talking, laughing, shouting and singing, so early December will tell the tale if the comingling creates more covid infections. The prior holidays did produce rises in daily new covid cases but the bumps higher were very subtle so it is smart to expect the same. The holiday will likely be a nothing-burger in creating a substantial number of new cases. Fauci is receiving criticism  for a comment about asking party attendees to do a covid test beforehand and consider wearing a mask at the family gettogethers. Go away dude. You did enough damage. Arizona, New Mexico  and Kansas remain challenged with new covid cases but the outbreaks are small and manageable. Ditto Colorado that needs monitored as cases sneak higher but remain small numbers. If people test positive for covid after the Thanksgiving Day holiday, the infections will appear between 11/29/22 and 12/6/22. If covid does not rear its ugly head by the first week of December, the idea of a Fall/winter covid surge in America can be officially put to bed. There are no infections yet with President Biden and his entourage that were island-hopping the covid-infected nests in Asia last week. People would be reporting positive tests now if they became infected during the G20, APEC and other meetings in Asia last week. It would be great news if none of the US dignitaries, or other world leaders, get sick because it will prove that COVID-19 is losing its punch. The next couple weeks will provide the data to know if Mother Earth can finally shake that sticky covid pandemic booger from her finger flicking it into the endemic trash basket.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 11/24/22, at 11:00 AM EST: Americans, er the wealthy privileged class, are flying at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic 3 years ago. US airports are logging over 2 million travelers per day for the last 3 days huge numbers. Passengers are told to arrive at the airport 3 and 4 hours before their flights. Newsweek (democrat-run media) publishes a story about airlines hiding their flight delay and cancellation data. It is true because Keystone is having trouble finding information. In corrupt (greedy) America, if you are having a problem, simply hide the data (non-transparency) instead of fixing the problem. The downfall of the crony capitalism system is due to human greed (corruption) and non-transparency; it's that simple. There are many airline employees that remain unhappy that they were forced to kneel before their boss and take the mRNA shots into their arms to keep their jobs and support their families. Do not look for these workers to ever go out of their way for the airline ever again and when busy holiday seasons come around they call in sick. Be careful who you screw in life because you may not like it when they screw you back ten-fold. The US airline cancellations remain low for the holiday although the flight delays are elevated and increasing.

Note Added Friday Morning, 11/25/22, at 3:00 AM EST: The world reports 454K daily new cases for Wednesday and the 7-day MA is at 345K cases per day. Oh no. Japan reports over 133K daily new cases the most since late August/early September. The 7-day MA for Japan's daily cases is a rocket launch to 87K cases per day climbing higher. What is going on in Japan? There are over 3.4 million active covid cases which is 3% of the population or 1 in every 37 Japanese are sick with COVID-19. The crematorium workers will be told they have to work overtime. 160 Japanese die from covid on Wednesday and the 7-day MA trend line is running higher at 116 dead bodies per day. Countries should be wary of travelers from Japan where the XBB and BQ1 variants are on the increase. Daily cases are tagging 13K per day in Tokyo. Japan approves its first domestically-produced oral pill for fighting coronavirus called Xocova manufactured by Shionogi. The Pfizer and Merck oral pills for treating covid are already in use in Japan. Scientists are expecting a peak in daily new cases at anytime forward but the last 2 days are a setback. COVID-19 is solving Japan's aging demographic problem (culling the elderly). Japan is also experiencing a bad flu season so perhaps some of the reported covid cases may actually be regular flu. South Korea reports 70K daily new cases another lousy number so the pesky infection wave lingers-on averaging 53K cases per day. The news is bad for Japan, South Korea and China but Indonesia paints a rosy covid picture. The peak day for Indonesia's daily new cases is 11/16/22 at 8.5K cases which makes the 11/23/22 number uber important for the week on week comparison. Wednesday's cases are 7.2K below the 8.5K peak so Indonesia can be optimistic about the path forward. The 7-day MA for Indonesia's daily cases takes the first tick lower at 6.4K cases per day. The world needs China, Japan and South Korea to follow Indonesia's lead. Australia and New Zealand continue struggling to contain their infection waves with daily new cases averaging 12K cases per day and 3.5K cases per day, respectively. Brazil reports 27K daily new cases; not good.

Note Added Friday Morning, 11/25/22, at 4:00 AM EST: China remains a covid Hellhole. COVID-19 cases are over 30K per day countrywide and Beijing is at 2K cases per day at record levels. Beijing is the bed of communism in China where dirtbag Dictator Xi lays his murderous head each evening. It is important to Xi that Beijing not be presented in a bad light. Mini-lockdowns are occurring throughout the city as a means for the CCP to not have to say that Beijing is in lockdown but it obviously is. The streets are empty. Citizens are panicking about being locked-down for an extended period so store shelves are empty. Grocery and food delivery services cannot keep up with demand that is off the charts. Dirtbag Xi and his CCP henchmen are building more isolation centers to house covid patients and their recent contacts, and continue the failed zero-covid strategy, but the reason behind the facilities is much more sinister. China is a communist state so whether covid dissipates or not, the CCP plans to control the Chinese population with a tighter fist. A means to that end is making sure Chinese folks kneel and obey Xi and the CCP otherwise they will be thrown into a concentration camp, er reeducation gulag, er isolation facility is what the commies like to say since it sounds so quaint and friendly. Similarly, in the United States the control freak politicians and medical officials are still pimping masks, testing, vaccines and other covid restrictions to keep the public fearful and easier to control. Such is the plight of humans.

Note Added Friday Morning, 11/25/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US reports 40K cases for  Wednesday and the 7-day MA is at 31K cases per day. Wednesdays and Fridays are the highest data days of the week recently so we will take the 40K number (if it is the highest number seen for the whole week). US active covid cases are no longer dropping but instead moving sideways at 1.3 to 1.4 million disappointing news. Some of these are lingering long-covid cases so it would be nice to see the downtrend resume and the active cases drop below 1 million; the US may not be able to ask for anything better. COVID-19 deaths remain elevated at 247 Americans dying per day. Colorado reports 1.2K cases for Wednesday a multi-week high with the 7-day MA ramping higher at 1K cases per day. Someone must be walking around Aspen licking doorknobs. The ski industry is big business and the snow guns are laying down a beautiful surface. The increased activity at the lodges, gas stations and hotels are leading to more covid infections in Colorado but no biggie yet and the virus is easily manageable at these levels. Keystone so enjoys the early morning powder at Vail. New York's baseline cases of 4K or 5K are finally starting to tick lower into the 3K to 4K range which is probably still too high. New York State's cases do not match the base levels in other highly-populated states so either the hospitals are incentivized to report more covid patients or the healthcare folks are having difficulty distinguishing covid from RSV from regular flu and too many cases are tossed into the covid folder. The US looks good. It is a mystery why 40K cases appear for Wednesday but the expectation is for the downtrend in US cases to continue. Hopefully, the potential US wave 8 will remain friends with Godot.

Note Added Friday Evening, 11/25/22: A California appeals court rules that schools cannot mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Finally, some common sense and wisdom among the dolts. Vaccinating and pretreating children for a disease that does not impact them is in violation of the Hippocratic Oath. Young folks under 18 years old are not dying from COVID-19 with any statistical significance. The children that have died from covid either had serious health problems with weakened immune systems, had other comorbidities, and/or were suffering from childhood obesity. If you are a parent of a chubby kid, it would be wise to sit down with a doctor and your healthcare team to chart a path ahead. You don't want your kid to end up like you, do you? COVID-19 is a disease of the elderly and those with compromised immune systems and/or suffering from other health conditions such as diabetes, lung cancer and heart issues. This is the truth no mater what you are told by the corrupt democrat and republican media outlets.

Note Added Saturday Morning, 11/26/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The world reports 382K daily new cases for Thursday and the 7-day MA is at 392K cases per day unfortunately now moving with a sideways to sideways-up bias instead of sideways-down as the chart above shows. Japan, China (including Hong Kong), South Korea, Brazil and lingering cases in the US and Europe, conspire to prevent the world's daily cases from moving lower. The infection waves in Japan and South Korea should peak over the coming week. Brazil's peak thus far is 30K cases on 11/18/22, so yesterday's cases, to be known tomorrow, will tell the story. Fingers are crossed for Brazil since no one wants to see COVID-19 make another run through South America. China remains a hot covid mess. The natives are getting restless. The lockdowns in Xinjiang are ongoing for over 3 months (100 days plus) and residents cannot take it anymore. 10 Chinese people are killed in a fire in Urumqi that was difficult to extinguish due to the zero-covid barriers blocking access. The Wall Street Journal reports that electric cars that had dead batteries also blocked the fire vehicles. Chinese folks have contracted COVID-19 and say it is only like a cold and you are over in a few days so there is no reason for these long multi-month draconian lockdowns. But there is a reason. Control. The filthy CCP is not building acres of isolation facilities for nothing. They know covid will eventually subside. The CCP has full control of the Chinese population through their smartphones and with CCTV cameras mounted everywhere tracking people. It is easy to understand that if any Chinese person becomes an activist or speaks an ill word against scumbag Xi going forward, they will be thrown into an isolation facility. The pandemic allows Xi, a Mao wannabe, an opportunity to become more dictatorial and authoritarian. Never let a pandemic go to waste. That's communism. At the FIFA World Cup in Qatar (football; American soccer), the maskless fans in the stadium are blurred-out by China's state-run media. The Chinse spectators are shown with masks on. The Chinese fans in Qatar are confused as to why everyone is not wearing masks and worried about covid. The Chinese people are experiencing now what the 200 other countries on the planet have already experienced over the last 3 years.

Note Added Saturday Morning, 11/26/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US reports only 19K daily new cases for Turkey Day and the 7-day MA is at 28K cases per day. 212 Americans continue dying from COVID-19 each day as Sleepy Joe Biden vacations in the wealthy privileged class area of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast. America is the land of the have's and have-not's, the rich and the poor, the corrupt people that control the crony capitalism system and the peons. New Mexico continues reporting lower daily new cases after the peak on 11/10/22 great news. You do not want to jinx it, but the US looks good for defeating the COVID-19 pandemic turning it into an endemic problem going forward. The last test will be if new infections occur after the holiday weekend. The chronology has proven that an 8-day incubation period is a sweet spot for infections to appear. Thus, pay attention to US daily new cases especially during the first days of December. This should be the final test. The Whitehouse has not released any information that there are any infections resulting from Biden's trip to the covid-infected nests in Asia. This is great news indicating that the virus does not have the punch of a couple years ago. COVID-19 is behaving as expected becoming less lethal over time but will always be widespread like the regular flu each year (endemic).

Note Added Saturday Morning, 11/26/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The NIH announces the MakeMyTestCount.org website where people can report their at-home COVID-19 test results anonymously. CareEvolution, a healthcare company, is involved in the project. Hey idiots, why wasn't this in place months ago? The Johnny-come-lately NIH shows up at the covid house fire when it is already a cinder. American mediocrity is on full display daily. The project is taken on because scientists think the cases, hospitalizations and other data may not be reporting an accurate picture. This is good news because it is the NIH hinting that the lingering case numbers may be painting a worse picture than is actually occurring with the covid pandemic. Do you know anyone that recently had covid? A year or two ago, and last winter into spring, everyone knew someone with covid, had it themselves, or just had a loved-one croak from the virus. Not so much anymore. We are moving into the endemic phase. If the US cases remain tame into December, and Japan and South Korea cooperate, the world will be painting a brighter picture for 2023 with the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The world's total coronavirus cases exceed 646 million with 6.64 million earthlings dead. China owes the world reparations for their nefarious deed. The world reports 383K daily new cases for Friday in line with Thursday's 388K cases and the 7-day MA is at 381K cases per day now with an upward bias. Japan reports 118K daily new cases for Friday and the 7-day MA is at nearly 100K cases per day. 31% of the new covid cases worldwide, 1 in 3, are in Japan. What is going on there? Japan is a hot covid mess with active cases parabolic at 3.7 million so a lot of Japanese are requiring medical help for their covid illness. 100 Japanese die from China Virus on Friday and the 7-day MA trendline is parabolic at 125 deaths per day. COVID-19, and perhaps the blind eye of the Japanese government, cull the elderly population that is a burden on the economy. South Korea's infection wave continues at 53K cases per day at least the rate is moving sideways instead of up. South Korea's peak day is 11/22/22 at 73K cases so the 11/29/22 number, to be known on 12/1/22, is key to determine if the wave of daily cases is rolling over. Indonesia has peaked with daily new cases the 7-day MA trendline now rolling over to 6K cases per day but it must be monitored to make sure the progress continues. 

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 4:30 AM EST: China is a covid nightmare. Protests are breaking out all over the mainland which are never tolerated by the heavy-hand of the CCP. Some of the clashes turn violent. In a surprising show of defiance, which will likely send the protesters to jail or worse, the Chinese demonstrators are chanting for dirtbag communist Dictator Xi and other CCP leadership to step down. Brave Chinese protesters yell the famous quote of US Founding Father Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty, or give me death." Sadly, if the CCP finds out who said that, they will oblige. In areas where the riots and violence are heaviest, the CCP announces that covid case counts and other metrics have improved to the point that restrictions can start to be lifted in stages. The Chinese people know it is more lies from the CCP and since the announcements occur directly after the riots, people trust the CCP less since it is obvious that they are not following any science. Most of what the Chinese people are told is bull sh*t like the American people have discovered over the last 3 years. Remember when jackass Fauci told the world he was all-knowing and  "Mister Science?" Sickening control freaks. The corrupt politicians and medical folks will tout science as the basis for the lockdowns and draconian rules but it is only the means that allows governments to exert greater control and restrictions over the population. Open your eyes.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 5:00 AM EST: Oh no. Brazil reports 41K daily new cases for Friday the most in 4 months. The 7-day MA ramps higher at 21K cases per day; not good. Brazilians are huge football (American soccer) fans and the World Cup in Qatar has people leaving work early to congregate at bars, restaurants and homes for viewing parties spreading the BQ1 variant like wildfire. Brazil health regulators now require masks at airports and on flights. Brazil is caught flat-footed by the surge in cases and is trying to roll out the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines as quickly as possible. Brazil footballers play tomorrow morning (Monday), and on Friday, so BQ1 is in heaven looking forward to feasting on the young supple host bodies at the parties. Brazil is in covid trouble. The only saving grace in the current outbreaks worldwide is that the death counts are not as high as prior waves. The World Cup creates a new rise in cases in France with the 7-day MA up to 44K cases per day. France is going to have to be added back on the bad country list. The lingering stink of covid will not dissipate. Italy cases are also starting to bump higher again but interestingly, Germany's cases continue lower albeit at a reduced pace. Germany's recent infection wave was far worse than France and Italy so perhaps the Deutschland has higher natural immunity and will remain more resilient to the virus during the football (soccer) games. The pandemic is not over until it is over everywhere and China (including Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Brazil, France and Italy are refusing to sing from the endemic song sheet.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 5:30 AM EST: 80% of the new COVID-19 cases worldwide are in only 5 countries; Japan (31%), South Korea (15%), France (13%), Brazil (11%) and Italy (10%). China's data is lies so it is hard to incorporate into the analysis. China is likely on par with Japan so adjusting the percentages and making an educated guess of the status, about 85% of the China Virus cases worldwide are in 6 countries; China (24%), Japan (24%), South Korea (11%), France (10%), Brazil (8%) and Italy (8%). One-half of the new COVID-19 cases worldwide are in China and Japan. 2 out of every 3 new covid cases worldwide are in China, Japan and South Korea. The FIFA World Cup football matches are fueling the new bumps higher in daily cases in Brazil, France and Italy.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The US reports only 9.5K daily new cases for Friday. A single-digit number is sweet. The 7-day MA is at 24K cases per day. The US active cases chart shown above is moving sideways between 1.3 and 1.4 million cases but needs to continue lower. 174 Americans continue dying from covid each day. New Mexico Governor Grisham tests positive for the second time this year. She is multiple vaccinated and boosted, isolating at home and experiencing mild symptoms. America remains in good shape but waiting to see if infections increase due to more human interaction during this 4-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 6:30 AM EST: In Canada, dirtbag baby King Trudeau is defending his pandemic decisions in front of a panel investigating his actions. When questioned about the heavy-hand of government smashing the Freedom Convoy of truckers demonstration, incompetent and corrupt Trudeau proclaims, "I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation." What an *sshole. Fancy college words from a scumbag politician that seized people's bank accounts and destroyed careers and businesses, and to him it was just another day at the office. It is sickening. Elite tyrannical Trudeau likes to play king during the week and then he puts on blackface makeup for weekend parties. Making the whole matter far worse, it comes out in the proceedings that President Biden encouraged Trudeau to crush the truckers in the Freedom Convoy. It is enough to make you vomit but none of it is surprising.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 10:30 AM EST: Whitehouse COVID-19 coordinator Dr Jha appears on "ABCThisWeek" (democrat-run media) the Sunday morning political television show. Interviewer Martha Raddatz says only 11% of the eligible Americans have taken the booster shot. Jha responds, "It's  been a long 2-1/2 years for Americans." He comments that many people have moved on with life proclaiming, "People can move on if they keep their immunity (vaccinations) up to date." Jha decrees, "Get the new covid vaccine. Get the flu shot." The interviewer says interest in the flu vaccines is low because of the lack of interest in the COVID-19 booster. They discuss a new variant in Massachusetts that accounts for 40% of the new cases. Jha says the BQ11 variant is worrisome but the "vaccinations hold up well." They must be smoking something because covid cases are not increasing in Massachusetts in fact the state is in a steady downtrend in cases since June. If the 40% of new cases are the BQ11 variant in Massachusetts, that is in the ballpark of the nearly 30% for the whole United States. For the US as per the CDC, BQ11 is at 29%, BQ1 at 28% and BF7 at 7%. BA5 drops down to 19% of the current US cases continuing lower. Jha discusses the 'tripledemic' of RSV, flu and COVID-19 and it is always the same solution and mantra. Kneel and roll up your sleeve.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 10:45 AM EST: Dr Fauci appears on "Meet the Press" (democrat-run media) the Sunday morning political television show. Interviewer Chuck Todd, that is essentially a democrat operative hosting a tv show, opines about Fauci's wonderful decades of service to the country laying it on thick. Todd sympathizes with Fauci decreeing that "you've been the target before." Fauci of course agrees that he is a target and opines, "I found myself in circumstances" not taking any blame for the many pandemic missteps. Fauci proclaims, "I've never seen the intensity of the divisiveness now." He says it is a shame that republican states have lower vaccination rates than democrat states making things political as he states that he wishes things were not political. Fauci decrees, "I don't  care if you're a far-right republican or a far-left democrat, everybody deserves to  have the safety of good  public health and that's not  happening." Why not, jackass? You were in charge for five decades. You failed. Get lost, dude. Beat it.

Note Added Sunday Morning, 11/27/22, at 11:00 AM EST: Dr Fauci, the guy that never met a camera he did not love, appears on "Face the Nation" on NBC (democrat-run media) the Sunday morning political television show. Please go away, dude. Jha, Fauci, Walensky and other Whitehouse, CDC and NIH covid officials only appear on the democrat-run media since the republican-run media, such as Fox News, Newsmax and AM talk radio, would ask tougher questions. Interviewer Margaret Brennan would never ask Fauci about the origins of COVID-19 unless the answer was pre-scripted. Fauci says that people with an immunocompromised loved one at home should wear a mask in every crowd when away from home. This comment is not based in science as numerous studies prove. An ill person is visiting the doctor's office multiple times each month exposed to others. On his way out the door, Fauci tries to blame others for his actions, tries to water-down his deeds and bad decisions, and otherwise attempt to rewrite pandemic history. He cannot since the Coronavirus Chronology recorded it all. Fauci says the US remains in the pandemic since cases and deaths remain too high. Fauci touts vaccinations as usual. He credits the quadruple mRNA shots in his body, that are likely still circulating spike proteins, for helping him recover from COVID-19; he actually got sick twice the second time with Paxlovid rebound. Fauci says, "You want to keep up on your boosters because protection wanes." It is surprising to hear him admit to a shortcoming of the vaccines. He says BQ1 and BQ11 are the variants of concern right now. Fauci will not say whether Americans will need another booster shot in the spring. Oh my. If only 11% of the  people are taking the current booster now, do not look for a line to form at the vaccine kiosk come springtime. Fauci says it is "iffy" that a once a year shot will occur. "It might require a spring or summertime boost." Fauci says more Congressional money is needed to educate people on vaccinations. Fauci says he is willing to testify before Congress in the future explaining what he did during the pandemic. Yeah, sure he is. Fauci already has a group of lawyers on speed-dial. Fauci says, "We need transparency." Hey jackass, you were in charge for decades and you did not do that. Get lost, buddy. Fauci did enough damage to the country and the story may become far worse once the origins of COVID-19 and the gain of function experimentation investigations begin by the republican-controlled House.

Note Added Monday Morning, 11/28/22, at 10:00 AM EST: The world reports 322K daily new covid cases and the 7-day MA is at 379K cases per day. Japan continues drowning in the covid sea of despair reporting a big 125K cases for Saturday near the peak high for the infection wave at 134K cases on 11/23/22, last Wednesday. 164 Japanese die on Saturday a new high for the current wave and the 7-day MA ramps higher at 128 bodies per day. China remains a covid nightmare receiving international media attention. The US cable news outlet are playing extensive coverage of the riots and demonstrations against China's zero-covid policy. Chinese folks know that the riots are about more than COVID-19. People see the concentration camps, er isolation facilities, being built and know the CCP plans on a harsh crackdown ahead. Chinese folks are already controlled and tracked through their smartphones. If a red warning appears on the phone notifying the person of a positive covid test result, access to stores and other buildings are immediately cut-off, and the person and any contacts will be whisked away by the Big White's to an isolation camp. Chinese folks are not stupid; they are highly intelligent like all other humans and see the writing on the wall. The CCP plans to control Chinse society and can use COVID-19 as a sick communist tool. The CCP has the ability to produce a red warning on anyone's smartphone at anytime, especially dissidents and activists, and haul them away to a camp where perhaps they are beaten senseless in the backroom. It is occurring now. The noble Chinese people are standing up to the tyrannical and authoritarian rule of dirtbag communist Dictator Xi and his CCP henchmen. There are lots of comparisons being made to Tiananmen Square in 1989 (remember 'Tank Man' that probably ended up being executed?) but there was no internet back then or smartphones and maybe 2% of the population, at most, knew about that uprising. This time is different with social media and hundreds of millions of Chinese aware of what is happening leading to revolts in all major cities including Hong Kong. When will Xi send in the tanks and military? Tiananmen ended in a massacre of tens of thousands of Chinese folks by the scumbag murderous CCP. Pray for a better outcome this time around. A BBC journalist is beaten and handcuffed by Chinese police at one of the riots the whole incident caught on videotape. Xi and the CCP are strong-arming foreign journalists to prevent them from publishing negative news stories. The covid cases in Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan have peaked. The COVID-19 hotspots are China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, France and Italy. World stock markets sell off worried about the social unrest ongoing in China.

Note Added Monday Morning, 11/28/22, at 11:00 AM EST: Thailand reports a pop in cases but the data is erratic and represents several days cases released all at once. Nonetheless, a hairy eyeball is required for Thailand over the next few days. Tourism, Thailand's lifeblood, is increasing, especially for the erotic vacations to Bangkok that wealthy silver-haired American men enjoy. Brazil's new infection wave increases to over 21K cases per day. France is in covid trouble again with about 50K cases per day and the 7-day MA trendline is at 50K cases per day and rising; bad news. France expects big things in the FIFA World Cup tournament and the rabid French fans are partying in force drinking wine, eating baguette, smoking cigarettes and spreading covid. Italy is in the same boat, football-crazy, cooking meatballs, eating pasta and spreading covid at a rate of about 32K cases per day. Germany is at about 24K covid cases per day with the trendline moving lower not showing the same trouble occurring in France and Italy.

Note Added Monday Morning, 11/28/22, at 12:00 PM EST: Look at that. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases drops to 20.5K cases per day teasing the teens. The US needs the active cases chart to drop out of the 1.3 to 1.4 million cases range down to a 1.2-handle to reignite the excitement that the pandemic is ending. 152 Americans are dying from COVID-19 each day great news that the rate is comparable to the regular flu season but 152 families will never be the same after today. Sleepy Joe Biden does not care. He is returning from a relaxing vacation with the wealthy elite class in Nantucket where common folks, including smelly Wal-Mart people, are not welcome. America's big test after the Thanksgiving holiday is in progress and if US daily cases start bumping higher, it will be most noticeable Wednesday, 11/30/22 through Wednesday, 12/7/22. If the daily China Virus cases can remain small for the next nine days, the US will be locking-in on the endemic phase and finally putting the pandemic to bed. China, Japan, Brazil, France and Italy will also have to improve going forward. Flu hospitalizations in the United States are at a decade-high.

Note Added Monday Evening, 11/28/22: Fauci continues making the rounds to the democrat-run news outlets during his farewell tour and today it is CNN and interviewer Jake Tapper on tap. Fauci is asked about China's assertion over the last few days that its zero-covid policy is "scientific and effective." Fauci says China needs to get people vaccinated especially the elderly. This i s true but the Chinese vaccines are junk and the CCP does not want to use the American mRNA vaccines. At the same time, natural immunity is not built up in the population. Another negative factor is the CCP okay with the elderly dying. It is one way to cure an aging demographics problem in a communist society that does not provide a safety net for old folks. Stupid people on television opine about why China has not been more active in vaccinating and caring for the elderly population. Maybe they want COVID-19 to cull the old folks a subject that no news anchor has the guts to mention. The world is an ugly place. Tapper and Fauci discuss ongoing supply shortages with medicines such as flu treatments. Tapper asks Fauci a question on the origin of COVID-19 but it is generalized and a softball toss to the doctor. Fauci decrees that coronavirus may have come from a lab leak but it is "not due to anything that the NIH was funding." He is trying to cover his butt as usual. Note that the Fauch calls out the broader NIH at fault, that was under Collins leadership, and not his own NIAID (Collins was Fauci's boss). Fauci is shifty always first to take credit for something that goes right while quickly throwing others under the bus when something goes wrong. The future investigations will determine Fauci's role in the Wuhan Lab mess and potential cover-up of the lab leak theory and gain of function research as emails indicate. Get lost, buddy. The Fauci stink lingers. Go start planning your legal defense with your lawyers, pal. Beat it. 

Note Added Tuesday Morning, 11/29/22, at 5:00 AM EST: In China, Beijing police are out in force to quash protests. Dirtbag Dictator Xi does not want Beijing to look bad on the world stage. Too late for that. There is significant social unrest occurring in 15 major provinces across China. The CCP is arresting protesters, taking their fingerprints and performing retina scans. Chinese protesters hold a blank sheet of white paper which represents censorship of speech in China. If you display an anti-government political sign you are thrown in jail, so the people raise blank white sheets of paper instead. Volkswagen halts production at several vehicle production lines in China so the closed-loop policy is another failure of scumbag Xi and the CCP. The automakers cannot get the parts they need to keep the production lines going so the closed-loop system is no longer applicable. Do the workers remain locked-up at the plants while waiting for parts to arrive? What a mess. Honda also stops production lines in China as parts become scarce. The CCP vows to increase vaccinations among the elderly. Yeah, sure they do. The evil CCP does not care; they are glad the old people are dying since they are a burden on a communist society.

Note Added Tuesday Morning, 11/29/22, at 5:30 AM EST: The world reports 274K daily new COVID-19 cases and the 7-day MA trendline is at 381K cases per day. 1,093 earthlings are dying from China Virus every day; it is difficult for the death rate to go sub 1K bodies per day. The old people and those with underlying health issues are dying from covid. Japan's 7-day MA for daily new cases continues higher at 102K cases per day; it's ugly. 135 Japanese are dying per day from COVID-19 and despite the windfall profits, even the crematorium operators and urn makers want the covid misery to end. Brazil's new infection wave worsens to 23K cases per day but Sunday's cases are only 6K. Hopefully, Brazil's still-small infection wave is a pig in a poke and will roll over quickly. France reports 38K cases for Sunday and the 7-day MA is ramping higher at 40K cases per day. More covid infections occur in France as fans enjoy each other's company while watching the FIFA World Cup games. Covid cases continue lower in Germany so France and Italy's mini-bump higher in cases, because of the football (soccer) games, may be short-lived. The UK is in good shape with covid but unfortunately crosses the 24 million total COVID-19 cases milestone. 1 in 3 people in the UK have contracted China Virus over the last 3 years. With a little luck, South Korea, Brazil, France and Italy may improve in the coming days and if that is the case, the only two remaining major COVID-19 hotspots in the world would be China (including Hong Kong) and Japan.

Note Added Tuesday Morning, 11/29/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The US reports 11K cases on Saturday and 15K cases for Sunday including revisions; nice low numbers that need to go lower. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases is down to 22K cases per day. 137 Americans are dying per day from COVID-19. The pandemic in the United States has become a "pandemic of the elderly" with 90% of the China Virus deaths occurring in folks 65 years old and older. It is terrible news but you are happy if you are 64. Many of the elderly dying from covid are vaccinated. CDC Director Walensky says reducing the deaths in the elderly population is "a real challenge." Obviously, since she, the CDC, NIH, Whitehouse and all the other highly-paid medical pontificators have not been able to decrease the US covid death count all year long. US deaths are starting to establish a solid downtrend again but it is due to the cases decreasing (deaths lag daily cases typically by 2 to 4 weeks) and not any action by the incompetents in charge.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/30/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The cold December winds begin chasing people indoors in the northern hemisphere to breathe each other's air. The world reports 241K daily new COVID-19 cases and the 7-day MA trendline continues sideways at 379K cases per day. Sideways is better than up. The world's cases remain buoyant mainly due to ongoing covid infections in China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, France and Italy. Nonetheless, the US and world remain in good shape to put the pandemic to bed and begin the multi-year endemic phase ahead. It is better to have cold-like, even flu-like, symptoms (endemic) from COVID-19 instead of croaking from it (pandemic). 1,006 people on earth continue dying from China Virus each day teasing that sub 1K deaths per day number. Japan reports 57K cases for Monday an elevated number but better than the last few days. Japan's 7-day MA for daily new cases continues higher at over 102K cases per day. Japan's active COVID-19 cases are teasing 4 million a huge number. 1 in every 31 Japanese are receiving ongoing care for a COVID-19 infection. 136 Japanese are dying each day from coronavirus. 14%, or 1 in every 7 covid deaths worldwide each day, are on the island of Japan. South Korea is not out of the woods yet with cases continuing sideways at 53K per day but is expected to improve. South Korea peaks at 73K cases on 11/15/22, then reports 70K cases on 11/22/22, which maintains the peak and potential downturn beginning, so the cases on 11/29/22, known tomorrow morning, will tell the tale for South Korea. Daily cases should hold below 70K and the farther below the better. Brazil's infection wave continues higher at 25K cases per day. France's 7-day MA for daily new cases continues higher at 49K cases per day but there are only 9K cases reported for Monday. France and Italy may be experiencing quick infection bumps due to the World Cup that may subside quickly. Italy has not updated its data since Thursday. Damn. Germany reports 47K daily new cases which stops the 2-month downtrend. Bummer. The men are donning lederhosen and the pretty ladies are in their dirndl dresses cheering the FIFA football (soccer) games, drinking beer and spreading virus. The 7-day MA for Germany's daily new cases curls higher at 26K cases per day; not good. The COVID-19 stink lingers.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/30/22, at 4:30 AM EST: China's social unrest continues as the population pushes back against the lockdowns and strict covid rules imposed by Dictator Xi and his Big White's (CCP henchmen in the white hazmat jumpsuits). A riot occurs in the Haizhu district of Guangzhou with demonstrators pulling down covid barricades tossing the debris into the street. Police and the Big White's are hit with bottles and other objects thrown by rioters. When people are caged like animals for weeks on end, they feel they have nothing to lose in life. The demands from the protesters expand from removing the draconian covid restrictions to wanting political reforms in China. Dictator Xi is not happy and likely telling the military to fuel-up the tanks. The Biden administration provides a weak response to the social unrest in China generally saying the US supports peaceful demonstrations. Biden should be supporting the protesters that are pushing back against communism.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/30/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The news remains good for the good ole USA especially on the COVID-19 death watch. 116 Americans are dying from COVID-19 each day which is the same as the regular flu season and verifies the endemic phase. The US reports 14K daily new cases for Monday and the 7-day MA is at 21K cases per day continuing lower teasing the teens. The disappointment is the US active covid cases which remain flat at 1.3 to 1.4 million. It will be a good day when this range is broken to the downside and a 1.2-handle appears. Sideways with a hair of a downward bias for active covid cases is better than up. There isn't any news on the Whitehouse staff and entourage testing positive for covid after the Asia trip. This is good news so maybe the Thanksgiving fun will not result in any appreciable rise in cases. A small bump higher in covid infections occurred after Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day holidays but were no biggies. Covid test sites around western Pennsylvania, as well as in other states, are being closed since people are testing at home these days another sign that America slowly moves towards the endemic phase.

Note Added Wednesday Morning, 11/30/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The Epoch Times that leans republican, releases an interview with MIT professor Retsef Levi that says COVID-19 vaccinations should stop in young people until more is known about myocarditis and other heart issues. Levi leads a study into the incidence of myocarditis and other emergency heart issues in 16 to 39 year old vaccinated Israelis. The study criticizes Pfizer and Moderna for not being more proactive in researching the myocarditis problem with vaccinations. The study creates controversy with pro-vaccine folks attacking Levi. Reuters, which are dyed-in-the-wool democrat journalists, pan the study proclaiming that it does not prove a direct causal relationship between the shots and myocarditis.  Reuters complains that social media messages are not interpreting the information correctly. It sounds like people will always view the data and information differently depending on if they are republican scientists or democrat scientists. Isn't it sickening? At least you received the non-biased information from the Coronavirus Chronology over the last 3 years. The republican and democrat political parties are two sides of the same corrupt Washington, DC, coin. The COVID-19 vaccines do appear to cause increased occurrence of myocarditis in young people and the matter needs investigated in detail. A COVID-19 illness is not a biggie for a young healthy person so the tradeoff between most children having flu-like symptoms for a few days versus the risk of myocarditis after multiple vaccinations must be explored. Countries such as Denmark have stopped vaccinating young people months ago.

Note Added Wednesday Afternoon, 11/30/22: Former US President Bill Clinton tests positive for COVID-19. Of course he is vaccinated and boosted out the wazoo repeating the mantra that he is "experiencing mild symptoms." Clinton tells Americans to go out and get vaccinated. Like he did and then you get COVID-19? Since the doctors are keeping an eye on Slick Willie, they may as well test him for STD's. The emergency approval for Eli Lilly's bebtelovimab monoclonal antibody treatment is pulled because it is not effective in treating the BQ1 and BQ11 variants.

Note Added Wednesday Evening, 11/30/22: In China, top officials say the pandemic is entering a new phase since the omicron variant is weakening, more people are vaccinated and there is more experience handling the virus. It is bull sh*t. The CCP is trying to soften its stance on covid to reduce the social unrest and violence occurring across the mainland. Officials are not mentioning the zero-covid policy during their promises of a softer stance. It is more games from the lying CCP. Some lockdowns are lifted and covid measures reduced in several cities but this is likely more smoke and mirrors. Chinese folks are fed-up especially with the daily mass testing that disrupts their lives. The CCP, police and Big White's (CCP in hazmat jumpsuits) are stopping Chinese folks on the street to look at their smartphones. The images are checked to see if there are any pictures of the riots and the downloaded apps are checked (special apps are downloaded that can get around the CCP censors). If the communist officials find activist items on the phone, the person is taken away to a jail cell or worse especially if a pretty lady. Some will never see their families again. Such is communism.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 12/1/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The world reports 500K daily new cases for Tuesday an unwelcome number. The saving grace is that cases were 525K on 5/22/22 and now 500K on 5/29/22 hinting that the daily cases may be peaking and starting to roll over. The 500K means the trouble in Japan and elsewhere continues. The 7-day MA for the world's daily cases continues flatlining at 387K cases per day. Japan reports over 127K daily new cases for Tuesday accounting for 26% of the new COVID-19 cases worldwide; 1 in 4. Last Wednesday, 11/23/22, Japan reported over 133K daily cases so yesterday's number, known tomorrow, is uber important. It is not a good sign that Tuesday's cases pop to 127K already teasing the 133K but the actual number will be known within 24 hours. The fate of Japan's ongoing nasty COVID-19 infection wave depends on the daily cases reported tomorrow morning. The 7-day MA trendline for Japan's daily cases is over 103K cases per day heading higher. Boom. Japan reports over 4 million active covid cases; terrible news. The old folks are dropping like flies. 153 Japanese die from China Virus on Tuesday and the 7-day MA ramps higher at 143 dead covid bodies per day. More urns are needed for the ashes. Oh no. South Korea reports over 71K daily new cases. Right when the path forward was encouraging, it all went to covid Hell in a handbasket. The 7-day MA flatlines at 54K cases per day. South Korea's infection wave will probably not increase out of control but rather stagnate sideways for a few days. The 71K is 15% of the world's cases covid cases on Tuesday or 1 in 7. Japan and South Korea account for 2 of every 5 new covid cases on the planet. Brazil reports 39K daily cases for Tuesday another covid problem area and the 7-day MA ramps higher at 26K cases per day. 8%, or 1 in every 13 new covid cases worldwide, are occurring in Brazil. Oh no. No wonder the world's cases spike to 500K. It's France.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 12/1/22, at 4:30 AM EST: Sacrebleu! France reports 92K daily new covid cases for Tuesday a huge spike higher. The wheels just fell off the covid bus in France. Folks are enthusiastically cheering the FIFA World Cup having fun, drinking wine, eating baguette, smoking cigarettes and spreading coronavirus. Almost 20% of the new China Virus cases worldwide are occurring in France; 1 in 5. The 92K cases is teasing the prior infection wave's peak of 95K cases on 10/11/22 so the new spread of covid across France is troublesome. The 7-day MA for France's new infection wave is at 51K cases per day ramping higher; terrible news. The never-ending pandemic is never ending. Italy is in the same boat as France but stopped reporting its data a week ago. The boot-shaped nation's solution to not look bad on the corrupt world stage is to simply hide the data. Germany reports 44K cases for Tuesday and the 7-day MA is at 26K cases per day moving higher. Germany may not get hit as hard as France and Italy with the new bump higher in cases, due to the FIFA football games, since Germany's prior infection wave was brutal (there may be lots of natural immunity in play in the Deutschland). The world watches the covid hotspots China (including Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Brazil, France, Italy and Germany waiting for the pandemic to end. 80% of the new COVID-19 cases worldwide, 4 out of every 5, are in 5 countries; Japan, France, South Korea, Germany and Brazil.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 12/1/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US reports 34K daily new cases for Tuesday and the 7-day MA is at 28K cases per day. The teens remain elusive but it must be appreciated that the daily cases for the United States continue to favor the 20K's per day. 132 Americans are dying from covid each day. It is great news to finally see the death rate drop sharply after many weeks of only a downward bias. Oh no. New Mexico reports 848 new covid cases for Tuesday teasing highs from a couple weeks ago. New Mexico was beating back the infection wave but something has gone off the rails. The outbreak in Navajo Nation, or infections created by thousands of migrants crossing the southern border each day, must be at fault. The CDC Community Transmission map shows the top left (northwestern) corner of New Mexico, which is Navajo Nation, a high-risk orange area. Next door neighbor Arizona is completely yellow (medium-risk) or orange and the top right (northeastern) corner of the state, which is Navajo Nation, is orange. Also the entire southern border of Arizona is high-risk orange clearly caused by the migrant crisis at the Mexico-US border. Arizona reports a steady 1.9K cases per day for the last couple weeks. New York's COVID-19 cases continue at a 4K to 6K per day pace for months on end. Something is fishy about the New York data. It will be impossible for the United States to get below 10K cases per day if New York State alone plans on reporting 4K to 6K covid cases indefinitely into the future. For endemic purposes, instead of targeting 10K cases per day as the US goal, anything under 15K covid cases per day would be good enough since some states may have data issues. A hairy eyeball must be maintained on Arizona and New Mexico. It is hard to find any updated news on Navajo Nation but the community is actively trying to reduce the spread by reducing business hours and placing schools fully online. Biden and the cronies in charge in Washington, DC, should be helping Navajo Nation, but instead they are too busy planning holiday parties.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 12/1/22, at 5:30 AM EST: China vows to reduce the COVID-19 restrictions nationwide and says the 'pandemic is in a new stage', or 'new phase', depending on the translation. China plans to allow folks that test positive to remain at home which is a big change to the failed zero-covid policy. This is a lie since the communists are building large isolation facilities in many locations throughout the mainland. Chinese folks know what is going on. Xi, his CCP strongmen and the military are clamping-down on protesters. There are armored vehicles staged outside of all major cities providing an intimidation factor as the Big White's continue rounding up activists and dissidents at the demonstrations and after viewing their personal smartphones. Chinese folks are continuously monitored by dirtbag Dictator Xi's communist regime (CCP). The natives are getting restless worldwide.

Note Added Thursday Morning, 12/1/22, at 9:30 AM EST: The KFF data shows that 58% of the US COVID-19 deaths are vaccinated folks; call it 60%. In other words, 3 out of every 5 US covid deaths are vaccinated Americans while only 2 in 5 deaths are unvaccinated people. The world is topsy-turvy in many different ways these days.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 6:00 AM EST: China's covid nightmare continues. Formula 1 cancels the 2023 Chinese Grand Prix event due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. CNBC media reports on how Chinese covid testing companies have made money hand over fist during the pandemic. The daily mass testing is a major complaint of the Chinese people. The situation turns ugly when it is discovered that test results are botched with false positives and false negatives. The false positives are likely not lab mistakes instead the CCP is using the COVID-19 app on Chinese phones to force activists and dissidents into isolation camps. The false negatives may be corrupt communist officials reporting less cases so they look better among their filthy communist brethren.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 6:30 AM EST: The world reports lousy news with 511K daily new covid cases for Wednesday and the 7-day MA is at 411K cases per day above 400K. After many weeks of improvement, covid jabs a stick to the eye. It is the pandemic that refuses to go away like Uncle Carlos in the guest room. The worldwide death rate remains at 1.0K to 1.1K bodies per day. Oh no. Damn. Japan reports a huge 138K daily new cases for Wednesday the most in 3 months and the 7-day MA is parabolic at 112K cases per day. On the Mr Brightside for the world, nearly 30% of the new COVID-19 cases are in Japan. Taking away Japan's 138K for hump day and the world would have only reported 373K cases. Tragically, 210 Japanese die from covid on Wednesday a 3-month high and the 7-day MA is parabolic at 150 Japanese covid bodies per day. Crematorium workers and urn makers will demand overtime pay. Japan's total covid death rate is over 50K people. Japan is culling its elderly population. South Korea reports 67K cases for Wednesday another elevated number. Brazil reports over 36K cases. France reports over 68K daily new cases for Wednesday. Germany reports 36K cases. Italy keeps playing games not reporting their data. The covid troublemakers are on full display. It is interesting that Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal do not have a covid problem but the China Virus stink lingers in France, Italy and Germany. Does it have to do with the testing and reporting? Does it have to do with ethnic make-ups where central Europe is more susceptible to the omicron strains? Scientists will have to figure it out.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 7:00 AM EST: The US crosses the 1.106 million COVID-19 deaths grim milestone. People yawn. No one cares. Oh no. Bad news. The Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend infections appear with 55K daily new cases for Wednesday. The US is now part of the covid troublemaker's group as coronavirus punches Uncle Sam in the face. Eight days is the sweet spot for covid infections to appear after an event and counting forward that is today. The 4 to 10-day period is the window some will say a bit longer at 4 to 14 days for the incubation period but if cases are showing up in that 6 to 10-day period the event was definitely a virus spreader. The next few days are key to see if the daily cases escalate higher to show a big infection wave on tap due to the holiday parties and shopping, or, if the bump in cases remains subtle and will subside in the days and week or so ahead. The Wednesday and Friday cases are typically the largest of the week so it is a small positive that the 55K cases occur on hump day. The cases for Thursday and Friday will tell a lot about the path forward for America as well as if the weekend cases remain low or if they jump significantly higher. Americans were out in force spreading good cheer a week ago and last weekend but that is not the only thing they were spreading. It is bad news for the USA since things were progressing swimmingly with a steady drop in daily cases for many weeks. The 7-day MA trendline for US daily covid cases rises to 37K cases per day with a sideways to sideways-up bias. Pandemic misery is our lives. The US COVID-19 death rate jumps higher to 200 bodies per day. Over the next few days and couple weeks, we find out the strength of the US herd immunity (vaccine and natural immunities). That 55K bump in cases is not welcome and the worst pandemic news in many weeks. Texas reports a big 4.6K spike in new covid cases for Wednesday which have to be related to migrants crossing the porous southern border. California reports 4.7K daily new cases for Wednesday. Illinois reports a huge spike of 5.7K case for hump day. New York State is at 6K cases. Cases pop higher in Virginia where the politicians and lobbyists live. Ditto Georgia reporting 2.2K cases for Wednesday. 2 in every 5 new COVID-19 cases in the United States, about 40%, are in only four states; New York, Illinois, California and Texas.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 8:00 AM EST: A scandal deepens at the US Naval Academy. The vaccine mandate garbage is still in effect and the academy has refused to provide diplomas to graduates that did not take the vaccine. Religious exemptions are also denied. The Naval Academy is denying the news stories but people step forward saying their diplomas and credentials are held back despite performing the work at the academy. Americans lose faith in the institutions since there are liars in charge. Ditch the stupid vaccine mandates, *ssholes. The Naval Academy mess will continue in the courts. What a waste of time and resources when all the jackasses have to do is ditch the covid vaccine mandate. In Los Angeles, county health official Barbara Ferrer wants to reimpose a mask mandate in indoor settings. This crap never ends. Idiot Ferrer says she is basing the decision on the level of infections going forward. The control freaks do not want to give up the power over the people. It's fun to play God.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 10:00 AM EST: US biotechnology company Vaxxinity announces positive results for a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot under development. VAXX stock catapults +20% higher then collapses -30% intraday to trade down -10%. Connecticut democrat Senator Murphy tests positive for COVID-19. He is vaccinated and boosted out the wazoo and isolating at home.

Note Added Friday Morning, 12/2/22, at 11:00 AM EST: The COVID-19 infections rise in the United States after the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The daily new cases for the days ahead dictate the fate of the US going forward into 2023. The potential Fall/winter wave 8 has been vacationing with Godot (nowhere in sight) but Turkey Day infections are rising. Will a US wave 8 appear after all? Will herd immunity hold the covid monster at bay? How transmissible are the BQ1 and BQ11 variants? How many cases are being called COVID-19 but are getting mixed in with RSV and regular flu since the symptoms are similar? Are you looking out for elderly folks?