100,000? 130,000?

Saturday, May 16: 90,000+ deaths, 1,500,500+ cases. Another 3 day interval between 5,000 deaths. I decided to start keeping daily counts, since each new count erases last one posted, and my memory can't keep track either. So following are numbers and some bits of additional info/comments on the day's tallies. I need a better source for MIS-C numbers, now that they're releasing them intermittently.

Monday 5/18:  91,981 deaths, 1,550,294 cases.

Tue, 5/19:  93,533 dead,  1,570, 583 cases. News leaks that multiple Governors are squelching data release. Generally in red states, don'cha know. 'Cause can't stop opening 'er up, don'cha know.

Wed, 5/20: over 95,000+ dead - didn't get number of cases.

Thur, 5/21: 1,620,902  cases,  96,354 dead. 300 cases Multisystemic Inflamatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a complication of Covid 19. One recovered  patient described it as every part of their body being on fire. AKA torture. For kids. There are both recoveries and deaths. Don't know if these deaths are added into the total deaths numbers.

Fri, 5/22:  330 MIS-C cases,  1,654,094 cases,  97,647 deaths.

Sat, 5/23:  1,666,828 cases,  98,683 dead.

Sun, 5/24:    1,686,436  cases,  99,300 dead.

Memorial Day, 5/25:   1,706,226 cases, 99,805 dead. Note that case numbers are rising much faster than deaths, reinforcing both larger number of new cases, and support for squelching of numbers of deaths because...  bad PR, don'cha know. Whose dead are we mourning today? Too many heroes being picked off, whether by war or virus. No doubt somebody soon will be counting those in war zones dying from the virus as a whole 'nother category. Meanwhile celebrations (? Celebrations? Seriously?) on the home front with thousands of people squeezing tightly into all kinds of spaces. On TV of course. And since that's not enough invitation to death, Minneapolis cops killed another black man, George Floyd, by keeping pressure on a knee on his neck while he was still and not resisting, and ignoring his complaints that he couldn't breathe. I guess now suspicion of forgery has become a capitol crime. Maybe we should just call it BWB: Breathing While Black.

Today, 5/26: Reached & passed the number Trump said we'd never make. 100,441 dead. Also 1,722,059 cases. New York Times says the number of dead is more likely 130,000, based on how much higher all deaths are right now than a year ago. They do allow for some where people died for not getting into the ER when they needed to, whether from fear or lack of capacity in the emergency infrastructure to get them there in time. AZ reports 55 cases in Sun City zip code, does not sort out whether in congregate living facilities like nursing homes, nor any outcomes by zip code.

Trump still won't wear a mask, pushing everybody to get out there and mingle without one, ridicules Biden for wearing his. If that doesn't say it all....