You'd think they have some sort of agenda here

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The state, with its flunky Greenwich Time, reports that there were 84 new Covid deaths yesterday, but doesn’t say who died, or where. In fact, the dead can be found almost exclusively among members of the Golden Years set, and they most probably expired in nursing homes.

Yesterday’s (Tuesday’s actually) included: 58 individuals aged 80 or over, 12 aged 70-79 and 10 in the 60-69 bracket: 80 out of 88.

The cumulative totals are equally instructive:

CT Data through 5/12/20

AGE GROUP CASES DEATHS

20-29 3,825 4

30-39 4,848 19

40-49 5,036 43

50-59 6,159 127

60-69 5,209 390

70-79 3,432 680

80 + 5,131 1,856

With all due respect to the old, obese and otherwise vulnerable, we choose to shut down the state, close schools, throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and bankrupt the state, when we could instead protect a handful of older and sick citizens and let the rest of the population continue with their lives. This is no way to run a railroad, unless, of course, your objective is to nationalize those railroads; for many, it is.

Price, or Wu Hu Flu?

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475 Stanwich Road, asking $2.350 million, has contract after just 9 days. It sat, unloved and unsold, from May 2018 through August 2019, priced originally at $2.950 but dropping slowly all the way to $2.3 without result.

So can we hope that NYC flu refugees are beginning to flee to the suburbs and snapping up previously-unwanted properties, or is this just sign that a well-priced home, and $2.350 seems like a good price for this house, will find a buyer?

Maybe a little of both.

(On Wednesday Reader “Transplant” provided this link to a NYT article on the movement out of the city. Interesting read, in case you missed it in the comments section)

A little bit of life in the market — maybe some disappointed would-be-renters are settling for buying instead?

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4 Highgate Rd

4 Highgate Rd

4 Highgate Road, at the end of Indian Head in Harbor Point, was asking $3.295 million and finally has a contract. This property’s been for sale since April 2016, when it started at $4.995.

The owners paid $2.875 in 2008, razed the house and built new in 2011, so this was no moneymaker.

8 Bradbury

8 Bradbury

8 Bradbury Place, also in Riverside, 42.9 million, also reports a contract, this after just 28 days. But it’s always sold quickly, probably because it’s a decent house on a traffic-free little lane. Traffic-free, but not free from the noise of nearby I-95, but what do you want for just $3 million? Previous sales history: 2013, $2.9; 2008, $2.875. The tradition continues.

54 Byram Drive

54 Byram Drive

And moving waaay up the food chain, 54 Byram Drive, Belle Haven, listed at $21 million and has sold for $17.1 (thank goodness the owner help out for and got that extra 100-grand). 294 days on the market, which at this price range is excellent.

As usual, James Lileks nails it

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From The Bleat:

I think a lot of people who lived their lives in a quivering state of imminent ecological collapse-panic have moved those emotions from that box into this one, and feel energized because the dread now seems even more imminent, and they have Science! on their side, and their enemies are all the right enemies, and this time they can make a difference. And it requires nothing.