Jim O'Bryan wrote:COVID-19 Cases up in 25 states for the 5th straight day.
The USA is still losing about 1,000 people a day.
The President has decided to shift attention away from virus as has the Governor of Ohio.
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Arizona State Health Department is sounding the alarm - hospital bed and ICU is at capacity. Same in Utah and Tennessee.
Expect over 150,000 dead by August.
The pandemic didn’t go away just because Donnie pretended it did.
And as for the tired refrain that “it’s just old and sick people,” remember that over 50% of the US population suffers from at least one of the morbidities that put them at high risk.
Dr Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Institute in CA, and formerly head of cardiology at the Clinic, estimates that each fatal case was a person that lost about 11 years of their life prematurely, on average.
I don’t know who would want to give up 11 years just because the a$$hole in the White House didn’t want to acknowledge or deal with a public health crisis.
And finally, we are in a recession. And I don’t give one F¥CK. All those idiots who pushed to “open it all up” have just screwed themselves. The recession will be deeper and last longer than had we addressed the public health and safety issues first.
