Surviving C-19
July 20th, 2020
8:22 AM
181 Days since first US infection

It is unending, tedious and depressing, but I am not the POTUS.  I do not stick my head in the sand and pretend everything is going to be fine.  I know better, that global curve has never bent in the slightest all this time.  It continues to bend up, up and up. A virus does not care about borders, about politics, or about anyone’s political fortunes.  It simply seeks a new host to wreck and moves on.

Too bad Trump couldn’t follow that model, see his destruction, and move on.

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July 18th, 2020

4:00 PM–Numbers time

                                                                Yesterday                                           Today

Global Infected                 14,360,451                                           14,604,077
Increase Infected 234,416             243,626                                                

Global Dead                       603,482                                                 608,420                
Increase Dead                   5,384                                                     4,938

USA Infected                     3,744,061         3,804,907                                            
USA increase Infected        67,119                                                  60,846                  

USA C-19 deaths              140,369                                                 140,811

USA C-19 deaths increase            1,271                                                     442

Maine Infected                                3,687                                                     3,711Maine Increase                                41                                       24

Maine deaths                    117                                                         117
Increase Maine deaths                  0                                                              0

and Climate Change Keeps on Truckin . . .
Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100

While I worked in isolation on this another 4,938 of my fellow humans succumbed to C-19, of those 442 were my fellow Americans and 0 were my Fellow Mainers.