Covid-19 Updates: 1,052 Cases In My County, 11 Deaths

Still dealing with a flare, but it’s not quite as bad today…

Cases continue to mount, resting upon the new high level of normal transmission that seems to hit about 100 more people a week on average. Now it’s 2 more deaths a week on average as well.

As of early September, we’re starting to really see the effects of this mild pandemic (10x more deadly than the flu is still pretty mild.)

~ The travel and hospitality industries are crushed. Tourism, even with steep discounts, is crapped out. Americans are banned from most of the world because we can’t get our shit together. It’s the worst it’s ever been in a century easily, even counting world wars.

~ Sports as an industry took a HUGE hit, and are sputtering to get back to even televised games, given how political & societal events are creating a situation where sports players (many of whom brown) are participating in Wildcat strikes to make a point. (Most of which lasted only a day or two before getting at least some concessions from team owners.)

~ Going back to school in the autumn when Covid-19 is still rampaging across the land has become one of the stupidest spectacles ever. Universities and colleges need bodies, and a lot of students and parents are refusing to pay full price (or MORE!) for remote learning, so many keep attempting to open their campuses and then the young co-eds, who feel immortal, take stupid risks and outbreaks are the result. This is even more true for regular public schools, since young children are little germ factories at the best of times. Education is a complete failure at this point across the nation.

~ Mask-wearing and social-distancing aren’t enforced well enough, and the result? Our 1.6 million cases nationwide at Memorial Day has ballooned to over 6.2 million cases (and numbers are probably much higher than that…)

~ Layoffs and losing health insurance during a pandemic have led to many people questioning their priorities… and their politics. A lot of people realized how truly vulnerable they are and they don’t like it. It’s easy to ignore possible weaknesses in the system or one’s life until events push it right into your face. Apparently, the rat wheel life of racing to keep just above water is not as appealing as it once was.

~ Some evictions have been halted or delayed, but other evictions have begun. They haven’t fixed this problem and more homeless are already the result.

~ A HUGE sign of a depression? Demand destruction of food purchases requiring food to be steeply discounted!

This is a big one, maybe the biggest sign of all so far that things are really getting bad out there. So many people have to get their food from food banks due to loss of income that people aren’t buying enough groceries at the store. Since the $600 unemployment checks went down to $200 and there have been no more stimulus checks, people aren’t paying money for food. Grocery stores make a very narrow profit, pennies on most items, they get their money because everyone needs to eat and they sell so much. They are being forced to lower prices to induce people to actually buy groceries. Which helps struggling families with a lower income, but those without still can only use the free food they get at food banks.

More is coming, but for now– it’s bad enough.