Sorry, But Covid’s Not Over Yet
More People Died of Covid in the Last Two Days in America Than on 9/11. So Why Are Americans Pretending Like Covid’s Over?
Here’s a sobering fact. More Americans have died in the last two days of Covid than died on 9/11. The last two days.
Sorry, America. But Covid isn’t over.
I say that for a reason. Americans are acting, by and large, like Covid’s over. It isn’t. If anything, a brutal, bitter pandemic winter lies ahead. Like the last one — perhaps not as bad, but still very bad. If 9/11, the greatest tragedy in modern American history is a barometer, than we should all be chilled, because multiple 9/11s are still happening…every week…due to Covid.
So if more Americans are dying of Covid every single week than died on 9/11, why are Americans acting like Covid’s over?
Before I ask that question, though, let me give you some examples of what I mean. We’re spending the year in America, unfortunately. I go to the little cafe in my fairly liberal East Coast town every night to have some thinking time, to ponder the issues of the day, to decide what to do with the music we’re working on, me and the amazing singer I’ve teamed up with. And you know what? Almost nobody’s wearing a mask. Social distancing? Forget it. People are thronged outside, worse, inside…acting like Covid’s over.
This is in an affluent liberal East Coast town, the kind Red Staters would make fun of. So how much worse is it in Red States?
Well, it’s a lot worse. How do we know? Because hospitals and emergency rooms are already overflowing…again. Doctors are begging for if not mercy, then at least a little sanity. “We are finding ourselves in a situation where the lack of staffing in the broader community, and in the hospital, is just creating a perfect storm,” one doctor said. “We’re knocking on 100 percent, and it’s not over,” said another. “Nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists have all been working overtime, in some cases taking on multiple 18-hour shifts in a row.” “There are fewer ICU beds available now than at the peak of hospitalizations last December.”
But America’s acting like Covid’s over. Let me put that it in even starker terms…
