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Sunday US COVID News

“Covid-19 Live Updates: The U.S. Surpasses 11 Million Cases” New York Times
Faster and Faster and Faster

Late February to late April 8 weeks to reach 1 Million victims
2 Million June 8th - 42 days (6 weeks)
3 Million July 8th - 28 days (4 weeks)
4 Million July 24th - 15 days (approx. 2 weeks)
5 Million August 7th - 14 days (2 weeks)
6 Million August 27th - 21 days (3 weeks)
7 Million September 25th - 29 days (approx. 4 weeks)
8 Million October 16th - 21 days (3 weeks)
9 Million October 30th - 14 days (2 weeks)
10 Million November 8th - 10 days (approx. 1 ½ weeks)
11 Million November 15th - 7 days (1 week)

The Spread of COVID has both quickened and intensified in the USA since mid October; with an additional 3 Million new COVID cases within a single month’s time alone. A few weeks after diagnosis, hospitalizations and deaths follow new COVID cases. We’re just starting to see hospitalizations explode. Deaths will be next.

Health experts say that unless Americans change their behavior, things will only get worse. Hospitals are close to their breaking points.

“Joe Biden has spent these early days as President-elect pleading with Americans to pay attention to the relentless surge of Covid-19 -- with deaths averaging more than 1,000 a day in the past 12 days -- as President Donald Trump continues to ignore the deepening crisis and touts the promises of yet-to-be-approved vaccines as his panacea. The continuing power struggle between two men with diametrically different philosophies on how the US should handle the virus has left the nation rudderless at this critical moment -- forced by Trump into a governing crisis as he refuses to let the transition to the Biden presidency proceed and pass on knowledge that could be critical to slowing the spread of the virus next year.” CNN

“The (current) President spent most of Saturday (and AGAIN Sunday) golfing and tweeting his baseless and debunked conspiracy theories about how the election was rigged.” CNN It is obvious that that he doesn’t care at all about the welfare of the American people. His only interest is himself.

“Fauci says it's been months since Trump attended a White House Coronavirus Task Force meeting.” CNN

“Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar. ‘That is obvious. Of course it would be better if we could start working with Joe Biden's team.'” CNBC

“Victories in state and local races have allowed GOP leaders to conclude that voters support their let-it-be approach to the pandemic.” Washington Post

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I’m extremely weary from giving these daily reports.

If those in America, living with a pandemic, don’t respect each other enough to take basic measures to slow the virus down, how will my recording “history” make any difference? No matter what we do, history sadly tends to repeat itself. By denying the seriousness of the pandemic, too many Americans are fool heartedly killing themselves and others.

I live in one of the above mentioned “let-it-be” states. People and the pandemic are allowed to do whatever… Unfortunately, the two coming together make a deadly combination. Our state has COVID rules that go against CDC and most medical guidance. Although a pandemic should not be a political matter, it’s almost like the politicians here are on the side of COVID. What is happening in America? This is insane.

New photo taken today, but frankly, I HATE sad images. Under other circumstances, the tone might not be so sad or unsettling. Each day, I keep telling myself that things will get better. Unfortunately, lately they seem to only be getting worse for America.