Latrinsorm
01-23-2021, 05:56 PM
We are going to see our second straight week of declining new cases this week, for the first time since August. Even though that still means reports of 1,000,000 Americans contracting the disease this week, and we'll therefore see ~2,500 Americans dying in early February, it's a dramatic decrease.
In January.
We know the flu is seasonal.
We know when those seasons start and end.
We know when COVID cases went up and went down.
https://imgur.com/4hqOWvW.png
One of these things is not like the other.
Our COVID cases reached 3% of the yearly total when previous flu seasons were only at 0.3%, 5% when they were only at 0.5%, and is now declining a month before recent flu seasons peaked.
It is human nature to point the finger at the calendar, or the stars, or the sky, or three gals who are a little too into arts and crafts.
But when we point a finger at anything, three more point back at us.
We did this.
https://imgur.com/h3RE8MO.png
We did this.
https://imgur.com/KWwZiUQ.png
We choose which one we do next.
Not the weather.
Not the vaccine.
Not the President.
We choose.
In January.
We know the flu is seasonal.
We know when those seasons start and end.
We know when COVID cases went up and went down.
https://imgur.com/4hqOWvW.png
One of these things is not like the other.
Our COVID cases reached 3% of the yearly total when previous flu seasons were only at 0.3%, 5% when they were only at 0.5%, and is now declining a month before recent flu seasons peaked.
It is human nature to point the finger at the calendar, or the stars, or the sky, or three gals who are a little too into arts and crafts.
But when we point a finger at anything, three more point back at us.
We did this.
https://imgur.com/h3RE8MO.png
We did this.
https://imgur.com/KWwZiUQ.png
We choose which one we do next.
Not the weather.
Not the vaccine.
Not the President.
We choose.