Let’s ignore the possibility of weather making the virus weaker or stronger because the biggest danger, I pose, is within our control. First lets look at the cases which are seemingly beginning their launch into the imaginary atmosphere. March was our discover, and April brought a temporary understanding but there’s a large degree of change that begins as a simmer in June, coming to boil in July. Another similar trend occurred from October to November where cases more than double month to month. My fear is that the recipe for this kind of situation is preparation for, and subsequent celebration of America’s most participated traditions. July 4th and Halloween would fit those bills and that’s where the feeling of dread seeps in.
We’ve entered a season of mass habitual celebration that our society has already shown are more important than the greater social empathy needed to combat the unimaginable death coming.
The lack of a basic understanding the Coronavirus will be the largest damnation on American culture since the shame brought to the forefront of civil rights movement. To define more clearly, the wrongs done to black people in a “just” nation points to the abject failure to identify our inner bigotries. In its most compact definition as we understand COVID-19, limiting your exposure to other people, wearing masks and maintain social distance when in public places are the best ways to combat the spread of this virus. This is more a measure of expectations because the time to prepare for this has past with Thanksgiving behind us.
We’ve hit the highest deaths since April just in November, which may be surpassed overall in the coming Winter months. The point to take away is that deaths are a lagging indicator of at least a month. Deaths were falling until July, when they begun feel the effects from July 4th, surging in the following Month. August shows how after an event of high participation that the ability to fight the drug of normalcy is harder to resist. You crave that attention after being socially deprived for so long. From some unaffected individuals and families, they’re experience makes them feel suppressed instead of protected. It isn’t just the day itself but the few weeks prior and the weekend through the event.
I’ll end it with a few things on my mind, all in the form of questions, some with general answers. Some may have no answer and a few will be my opinion and the context for that opinion.
1. What’s the percentage of people who have COVID-19 without symptoms?
Over 40%
2. Why should we worry about deaths when the death rate is falling?
The death rate is falling because we have a better understanding of the virus on one level; however, the more responsible factor for the drop is now over 40% of all COVID-19 cases are outstanding which is only growing. The larger that percentage grows, the more active demand is on the medical system already taking on water in certain states. The more those are strained and some begin to break, localized death hotspots are a likely phenomena to follow.
3. How would you rank event’s by the great participation in American culture?
4 Fourth of July
5 Halloween
3 Thanksgiving
2 Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa
1 New Years
My thought’s aren’t an overall ranking or personal preference, but on how many people celebrate these events with gatherings of people for extended periods of time. Those gatherings can have different adjectives and obligations to attend but these events are still effecting you indirectly by the sheer participation by society at large in these events. Certain eateries and stores close or have shorter hours, some jobs are offering timely bonus, or more likely, having workers ask for advances on their pay. I hope that while it is rough to look at our failings of society, ignoring them allows those to fester and debilitate other functions of society indirectly. Lets look into the adversity people are stuck in and achieve solutions with people, not profit, at the center of our problem solving logos.
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