12-25-2020, 03:18 AM
The US total is now approaching one third of a million. I doubt that the virus is taking any holiday on Christmas Day -- and neither are the heroic medical staff who have the grim task of caring for people who should have better taken care of themselves. 332 thousand now, which is about the population of Santa Ana, California, America' 57th-largest city, so that grim sort of accounting may have to go.
Cities start thinning out from here, as the next city in size is Honolulu (population 345,000). It isn't that long ago that I mentioned Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis together.
Nobody dies without an effect upon others. Certainly not the medical staff whom I expect to be scarred by their experiences. Some -- maybe convicts about whom nobody could care about except their 'brothers' or 'sisters' under incarceration, or the last member of a family, may have died or may die with nobody noticing other than medical staff or some official who registers the death.
In case you think that my discussion of COVID-19 is macabre... there is no other way in which to discuss a disease so macabre in its own right.
Wear a mask in public; wash your hands often; avoid crowds. Don't try to cheat medical advice. COVID-19 is making this a lonely, boring, frustrating, unpleasant world. If you think that is bad... consider also death for having that effect..
Cities start thinning out from here, as the next city in size is Honolulu (population 345,000). It isn't that long ago that I mentioned Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis together.
Nobody dies without an effect upon others. Certainly not the medical staff whom I expect to be scarred by their experiences. Some -- maybe convicts about whom nobody could care about except their 'brothers' or 'sisters' under incarceration, or the last member of a family, may have died or may die with nobody noticing other than medical staff or some official who registers the death.
In case you think that my discussion of COVID-19 is macabre... there is no other way in which to discuss a disease so macabre in its own right.
Wear a mask in public; wash your hands often; avoid crowds. Don't try to cheat medical advice. COVID-19 is making this a lonely, boring, frustrating, unpleasant world. If you think that is bad... consider also death for having that effect..
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.