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NRaleighLiberal

(60,018 posts)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:25 PM Jan 2021

Saturday is usually a lighter COVID reporting day. Not today.

more than 255K cases reported. more than 2000 fatalities by this website https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en - total of 355K fatalities (a bit less than the site below)

not sure what this site had today - they've already reset https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - they have more than 358K fatalities total

Act Now site https://covidactnow.org/?s=1483439 has a few days with WA and OR orange, now back to red, and some states are returning to darker red.

It is inconceivable to realize that nearly the half of the country seems to be playing the herd immunity game - the issue being they are living amongst those of us who actually believe science and value life.

One other thing - looking at the news- every single fucking day since the orange asshole won the election in 2016, the news is largely about him. Here we are, only a few weeks away, with a great Biden/Harris victory - and he still finds a way to make every fucking day about him.

This is worse than a nightmare.

Edited to add - there is this - https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/02/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

Of course there will be another COVID spike - all those holiday travellers, all of those maskless parties.

Didn't realize that someone decided our country was about committing mass suicide. Darwin awards happening at an alarming rate.

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Saturday is usually a lighter COVID reporting day. Not today. (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 OP
Several states dweller Jan 2021 #1
I am not comforted - let's see what comes. I think we are still seeing Thanksgiving idiocy and will NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 #2
And neither am I comforted dweller Jan 2021 #3
I had no idea my outrage meter could run daily for 4 years....and each day NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 #4
My shockometer dweller Jan 2021 #5
The reporting is screwed up due to Christmas and New Years. By end of next week we'll have good data Klaralven Jan 2021 #6
My Son's GF works in a local ER. Said large influx of admissions today. rickford66 Jan 2021 #7

NRaleighLiberal

(60,018 posts)
2. I am not comforted - let's see what comes. I think we are still seeing Thanksgiving idiocy and will
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:34 PM
Jan 2021

soon see Christmas idiocy.

I am very embarrassed for our country right now - at least a large part of it.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,018 posts)
4. I had no idea my outrage meter could run daily for 4 years....and each day
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:44 PM
Jan 2021

it seems to cranked up even higher.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
6. The reporting is screwed up due to Christmas and New Years. By end of next week we'll have good data
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 11:59 PM
Jan 2021

looks like 7-day moving average of daily deaths will be over 3000.

rickford66

(5,528 posts)
7. My Son's GF works in a local ER. Said large influx of admissions today.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 01:37 AM
Jan 2021

No beds left. New patients will be sent to other facilities.

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