250,000 dead

Grim Grim Grim milestone in what is inevitably going to be a rapidly rising death toll. (Washington Post)

“From the start of the pandemic, public health officials and many political leaders hoped that covid’s frightening lethality — the death toll will hit 250,000 this week — might unite the country in common cause against the virus’s spread.

But the nation’s deep divisions — political and cultural — as well as the virus’s concentrated impact on crowded urban areas in the early months, set the country on a different path.”

— Marc Fisher, Shayna Jacobs and Pam Kelley writing for the 'Washington Post'

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Milestone after milestone and people seem to just be over the whole pandemic thing. Especially with the news that a 95% effective vaccine could be here soon and with Thanksgiving/Christmas right around the corner- this is a recipe for disaster. The current administration is not going to want to disseminate a vaccine so quickly that the virus is eradicated just before January 20th, that is the cruel zero sum game of me v. you in which the President engages. So here we are again, caught in the middle of 1 man’s ego trip and no way to speed up the calendar to 1/20/21. Have fun.