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If you're keeping score at home, on March 11 we had 127,000 cases, and 2,000-3,000 deaths. That was FOUR MONTHS AGO.
In four months, we've had 3,000,000 new cases and at least 130,000 deaths (between the massive increases in (1) deaths classified as "pnuemonia" and (2) deaths of unknown cause at home, I'd peg this number at least at 150,000).
Run that over a year, it's 12,000,000 cases and 400,000-500,000 deaths. By comparison, heart disease kills (as of 2017) about 635,000 and cancer 598,000 per year.
Come to your own conclusions as to how and why.
It's totally fine, though. Under control. Soon, those 3,000,000 cases will be down to close to zero. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.
I refuse to ignore how we got here, and believe doing so is detrimental to our present and future.
I want the America that pioneers innovation, invests in cutting edge technologies, leads the way on science and medicine. While there are injustices our society must confront and correct, it is also true that our history is rich with accomplishment. I want to believe that we are so much better than we look in 2020.