Day 247: Stasi Fail

India made the BNO News with 100,000 COVID deaths, though by Worldometer's standards they've been there for a few days now. Nepal, a nation of fewer than 30 million souls (that is, 1.4 billion fewer than China), bordering China (due to the latter's occupation of Tibet), now, somehow, has reached the #44 spot, with more cases than #45 China.

On the because it worked so well for Germany front, the University of Notre Dame's Stasi-style snitch-on-a-classmate website has been repurposed by enterprising students to snitch on the university president for not wearing a mask to the Rose Garden super-spreader event. (It seems the "super" spreading may have happened at the debate prep, instead, where the now-infected Trump, Bill Stepien, Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks, and Chris Christie were present.)

Business Insider is optimistic about President Trump's condition, so here's a little humor about it from "Whiskey Fueled Tirade" at DuffelBlog: Walter Reed medics tell President to return during sick call hours:

Medics and corpsmen at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center responded with the poise and compassion characteristic of their profession when the president arrived at the military’s flagship hospital earlier last evening.

“I told him the same thing I tell everybody when they show up all sad-faced and mopey while we’re closing the clinic,” Spc. Will Farmer, a medic assigned to the hospital, said as he smoked a cigarette near the executive sick call entrance. “Take some Motrin, drink water, and come back at 0430 when sick call starts hours if you really think you need to be seen. I see it all the time. Last week some supreme court lady was trying to get an appointment after sick call hours.”

“He’s probably just trying to get out work, or a debate or something.”

In science news, ProMED reports on several papers suggesting Parkinson's Disease may be one of those allegedly unusual long-term COVID-19 sequelae. Although parkinsonism is better known as as a consequence of other viral infections like the flu, and so far there seems to be only the one case report from Israel, it is something to watch out for.

Massachusetts' cases were up about half a percentage point again today. In other local news, Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has tested positive. Today's game has been postponed until Monday after an opposing team member also tested positive. Also, Worcester has cancelled Halloween, apparently in accordance with CDC guidelines suggesting that virtually-immune children do boring stuff at a distance to avoid COVID instead of trick-or-treating.