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This is totally unacceptable; it requires long overdue aggressive action instead of what can largely be characterized as late, chaotic unreadiness and stupidity
I don't know about you, bit I'm sickened and horrified by the new records set each day for American covid cases.
July 3rd >56,500, and more than doubled in < 2 weeks
(@washingtonpost graph) amidst modest measures, at best, to mitigate this dire predicament
As @tomaspueyo shows we are well on our way to >100,000 cases per day. He points out *total* cases in Wuhan were ~50,000. So we will get to 2 Wuhan units per day if nothing drastic is done to arrest/slow the spread
His thread 👇
We have flattened one curve—deaths of Americans.
Linear, log plots show that
They are no longer decreasing. And they will inevitably be increasing in the weeks ahead.
Loss of an average of 11 years of life per person we lose. Let's not lose any more time. Pull out all the stops
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