Not sure that I read the stats as horrendous.
We have cases but relatively few deaths.
This is what resuming a more normal, vaccinated life looks like. There's a new risk in the marketplace. But you are still at greater risk from other ways of dying.
The numbers are particularly high in kids who are back to school. They are tested and tested. So they show up in the stats. They get the virus, sometimes without showing symptoms, but don't die. So they make the new cases number high.
The biggest risk is to folks with compromised immune systems (like Colin Powell who had blood cancer), who are going to catch it if they mix with a large population of people with covid. It's a terrible quandary. Do you shut everything down for the sake of this small population? Or is the burden on them? I suppose I should say us.
I think this is the new normal.
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