Over and over, we keep being told that rising cases are no big deal. Over and over, we keep seeing how deaths inevitably surge as a result.
That we're losing more people in a day than died on 9/11 was a predictable outgrowth of letting the virus spread. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
That we're losing more people in a day than died on 9/11 was a predictable outgrowth of letting the virus spread. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
It's infuriating to watch people pretend that rising case numbers bears no consequence, to wave away the increase as unimportant or, as Trump did this week, to pretend it's a good thing.
People are dying and we knew people would die.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
People are dying and we knew people would die.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
One percent of the total recorded coronavirus death toll around the world was recorded in the last seven days in the United States. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… 
(The figures on that chart are cumulative deaths relative to population: 1 out of every 966 people in Arkansas has died from the virus, etc.)
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