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Looking through the numbers and graphs today. Below I've posted the UK Daily New Case Graph indicating the sharp increase in cases since November, and these numbers are rising and that's WHILE Britain has remained in lockdown. Britain is an example for what's also occurring in California, Germany, Japan, Russia...mankind is losing; the virus is winning, sharply rising despite the individual precautions and economic shutdowns.

For another example, take Germany (total deaths graph posted below). Through October many experts praised Germany's proactiveness and national health initiatives in keeping cases and deaths at low levels in proportion to their population. Through October Germany's population of 84 million had recorded under 10K deaths through mid-October compared to the US's population of 330 million recorded about 215K deaths through the same date. Now look at Germany's sharp rise in deaths.

In looking at all this, and given the inevitable mutations, did our experts severely underestimate what we're up against??? Despite all our efforts to mask up, socially distance, close our economies, shelter in place, unveiling a vaccine, etc - 10 months later we're LOSING worse than ever.

Mankind is used to controlling everything save for the weather. Are we learning too late that COVID is a force of nature as severe as a Hurricane? For example, our wearing of masks and distancing against COVID is akin to boarding our windows against a Hurricane? If wisely wearing a mask is no better than boarding your windows against a Hurricane, our house, so to speak, was never going to withstand the direct hit COVID has us under?

Most hurricane damage of course is due to water, not wind, but the analogy may be apt.  The steps we've taken have been largely sparingly effective, or giving only temporary relief.

France shut down recently and it did have an impact on new cases, but they are trending up again.  If we can keep hospitals functional, it's the best we can do until the vaccine is out there in numbers.  I see about 5 million in the US has had the first shot, which is thought to be 50-60% effective.

I don't know how many have immunity from getting it.  We have 23 million listed as having had it.  The true figure might be 100 million or so, probably less.

My esposita and I got negative results yesterday morning.

Elected leaders who violate their own mandates are just begging for popular resistance to them, that's for sure.

Elected leaders who violate their own mandates are just begging for popular resistance to them, that's for sure.

Ruh roh, Raggie.  Getting all political is a no-no.  Believe me, I know.

As a member of the 1b group in AZ, I was able to schedule my vaccination for the end of January this evening. 

The fun part will be not changing my behavior as I wait for the masses to get their vaccines. 

ok I gotta ask

are you receiving the vaccine because you are a teacher

I didnt realize teachers were considered that high on priority

not saying I disagree just that I thought the priority list didnt rank teachers that high

TMZ, of all places, with a very point to point account of the unfortunate COVID death of a Beverly Hills Plastic surgeon:

"While the doc was hovering over the maskless woman, our sources say she coughed in his face. He had his mask on... She contacted the office a few days later to inform them she had tested positive for COVID.

Dr. Simoni then went into quarantine and began experiencing symptoms -- shortness of breath, etc -- and in short order, he was on a ventilator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We're told Dr. Simoni was eventually placed in a medically induced coma as his lungs started failing. He died Friday from a brain hemorrhage."


https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/10/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-dies-covid-patient-cough/