50,000 New Infection Thursday – Happy Holiday!

50,000 new infections!

That's right, that's the 5th time in the past 7 days the US has hit new all-time single-day highs in infections.  Over in Japan, six weeks after Tokyo lifted it's State of Emergency, they are back to their May highs in daily infections.  At this point, I don't think there is much to do about it.  Clearly humanity has no taste for the obvious way to control the disease and very clearly Americans don't.  Maybe the "herd immunity" crowd was right – cows don't go into lockdown when a disease strikes – some die, some don't and the rest of the herd moves on…

I don't suppose a cow puts much thought into it's vulnerability or what will become of it's children and loved ones or how it's business will survive or how it's carelessness might affect his fellow cows - AND NEITHER DO AMERICANS APPARENTLY!  Maybe we just eat to many cows and we are starting to think (or not think) like them?  Texas eats a lot of meat and they had 8,000 new infections yesterday but Arizona, which has 1/4 of Texa's population, had 4,700 new cases – more than half, so about 5 times the infection rate of Texas.

From Japan and other countries that have had re-infections, it's very clear that bars are a major cause of the spread of the infection yet the bars are open in most states for what is usually a big drinking weekend as we bow to pressure from the Liquor Lobby to keep things flowing while completely ignoring the Rational For God's Sake Will Humanity at Least Try to Save Itself Lobby – as usual.  As noted by David Leonhardt:

Government policy and economic forces have combined to make corporations and the wealthy more powerful, and most workers and their families less powerful. These workers receive a smaller share of society’s resources than they once did and often have less control over their lives. Those lives are generally shorter and more likely to

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