Covid trend in U.S.

 I was just looking at the covid #'s and I noticed a trend. When I look at the tracker  for the U.S, I notice that the NorthWest has a roughly 30% chance of surviving Covid-19.

                                Deaths            Recovered              Total                         % 

New York                33366            78530                     111896                     30 

New Jersey              16227            36005                      52232                      31

Connecticut               4559              9651                      14210                      32

Maryland                 4050              7926                        11976                     34      

Rhode Island           1164               2558                       3722                        31

Exceptions:

Massachusetts         9758              118892                     128650                   7.6

Delaware                   668                12245                       12913                   5

DC                            642                 12884                      13526                    4.7

It seems, the further away from New York the better the odds except:

Kansas                      895                2415                          3310                    27

The worst odds though appear to be:

Nevada                    1727              2336                           4063                    42.5

Other West/Central states:

Washington              2282                n/a                (probably just forgot)

Oregon                       633                5870                    6503                        9.7

Arizona                    5837              38705                    44542                      13   

California                17069              n/a                  (probably just forgot)

New Mexico            942                20001                    20943                      4.5                  

The best odds appear to be:

Idaho                        535             26238                        26773                    2

Alaska                        67                6681                       6748                      0.09

Oklahoma                1191            93698                       94889                    1.2

Utah                           551            71693                       72244                    0.07         

I just found it interesting. 

Not sure what it means, perhaps each to their own on that. 

But I felt it worthy of mention.       

I have not done the same for Canada but I may yet.

Canadian Internet in the U.S

Thought I'd write about this as it has been an important topic for us and may well be for other Canadians as well.

We received a call this morning from Bell, they were calling to inquire if everything was okay with our service. I advised that it is BUT we needed a data plan we could take with us into the U.S, would there be anything they could do other than the 100mb for $5/day...

Turns out there is. We have now been switched to a Canada/US plan which allows us to take our current phones and data into the states with us. No hassle, no trouble. (at least that the theory, we'll see how it works). When we were researching the different companies - Verizon, AT&T, etc. they all have different coverage. We also looked into some mifi type units. Some work mostly in the Eastern U.S, most have spotty service in the Western U.S., but Bell's coverage map for the U.S. shows almost complete coverage.

My assumption here is that Bell has deals with all the American companies which affords us the most coverage. Fantastic! Sure, its not cheap but it is cheaper than the plan we are currently on which is only covering us for Canada. And did I mention its 20Gigs of data?!! We are on 25G at the moment so it will require some cutting back but it is minute relatively speaking.

Our cell phones will work there as they work here, though we will definitely have to cut down our data usage until we get a handle on it. Back at home we were using 58G/month so you can see there will be some trimming required. Before you all freak on me about our data usage, we are aware it is a lot.

Given we intend to boondock most of the time, our biggest concern now is for keeping everything electrified. Hopefully our solar will be the solution we hope it will be in that regard.