Just to keep track of the nonsense that has wrecked our economy and generally made our politicians run around as if their fool heads were on fire, each day I publish the corona virus total death toll in the US based upon the latest data I can find. A single death is an immense tragedy if you love the person. However, we are not talking about love, but rather public policy, which should always involve a sober analysis of risk and cost. Please recall that in a bad normal flu year our death toll in the US can be as high as 90,000.
Note: this will be a total death toll since the beginning of this bad farce, and not a daily toll. As of the beginning of July 7, 2020 the claimed, as suspect as that claim is, death toll is 132,981.
Well I said I thought this would be done by my birthday. I stand corrected.
Between my mom working in a hospital and the nightly news she and Dad insist on watching, I for one am absolutely sick of hearing about it. (Especially as my data-obsessed brain wants to keep yelling at the TV that they’re not telling us what we need to know.)
Oh and don’t even consider going to look at Mark’s blog on it. Every day he seems to take it as challenge to go even lower. Who knew all it took to put him in favor of torture and the death penalty, was for it to be inflicted on republicans.