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More dying. More death. More loss. More heartbreak.
More parents and grandparents lost.
More Americans with preexisting conditions being lost.
In case you have never checked it out, I have been keeping track of the Coronavirus Pandemic progress in the USA in a daily thread called
Corona Virus Peak Watch Thread
I had no idea when I began that thread almost a year ago how long it would take until we reached the peak.
I also had no idea that when we reached that peak, there might be more than one peak.
Well, we reached a peak at the end of January 2021.
Hooray!
But that wasn't the end of the virus.
It merely meant that we finally stopped adding more new cases than were resolved.
The number of Active Cases peaked and began to fall for the first time. And that felt good.
***
But our progress just halted.
Yesterday, for the first time since the end of January, we began to see the numbers start to rise again.
Yesterday showed more Active Cases than the previous day.
Gov DeSantis of Florida deserves much of the credit for killing our progress.
He foolishly dropped all restrictions in Florida.
And now Florida is recording more New Cases per day than California, even though California has nearly twice as many people.
Spring Break has not been just college kids. Many adults have gone there to get away from the stress of fighting the virus. That has created an epicenter.
Spring Break has become Florida Spring Super-Spreader.
We have not learned our lesson. More pain, more dying, more heartache, more loss are all on the way.
We have got to do better. We have got to be more responsible. We must stay the course until the job is done.
More parents and grandparents lost.
More Americans with preexisting conditions being lost.
In case you have never checked it out, I have been keeping track of the Coronavirus Pandemic progress in the USA in a daily thread called
Corona Virus Peak Watch Thread
I had no idea when I began that thread almost a year ago how long it would take until we reached the peak.
I also had no idea that when we reached that peak, there might be more than one peak.
Well, we reached a peak at the end of January 2021.
Hooray!
But that wasn't the end of the virus.
It merely meant that we finally stopped adding more new cases than were resolved.
The number of Active Cases peaked and began to fall for the first time. And that felt good.
***
But our progress just halted.
Yesterday, for the first time since the end of January, we began to see the numbers start to rise again.
Yesterday showed more Active Cases than the previous day.
Gov DeSantis of Florida deserves much of the credit for killing our progress.
He foolishly dropped all restrictions in Florida.
And now Florida is recording more New Cases per day than California, even though California has nearly twice as many people.
Spring Break has not been just college kids. Many adults have gone there to get away from the stress of fighting the virus. That has created an epicenter.
Spring Break has become Florida Spring Super-Spreader.
We have not learned our lesson. More pain, more dying, more heartache, more loss are all on the way.
We have got to do better. We have got to be more responsible. We must stay the course until the job is done.