Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Reopening the USA

It’s so “exciting” (confusing? maddening?) to hear about all the people in government that are making, and in some cases already executing, plans to “reopen” our communities to the spread of COVID-19. Not sure what supporting data they’re using, other than the desire to get out and have the “freedom” to transmit the virus at will. I just realized this morning, that COVID-19 has already killed way more people in the USA (42,500) in just the past month, than the Flu killed (34,200), during its entire 2018-2019 season. Those two numbers alone should give some sense of the higher lethality of COVID-19. And of course, the COVID-19 number is still increasing rapidly. The good news is, social distancing and other measures appear to be helping, and the curve appears to have stabilized into linear form, with deaths still holding below 2,000/day, arguably a number the hospitals can handle...? RIP y’all. The rest of you, stay safe out there! In other news, our President announced yesterday, that he wants to suspend immigration into the USA.

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