For all the skeptics that refuse to wear face masks and still believed the COVID-19 virus is no worse than annual death rates from other sources, the data is beginning to debunk that notion.
New research “suggest the new coronavirus is deadlier than the seasonal flu, though not as lethal as Ebola and other infectious diseases that have emerged in recent years. The coronavirus is killing more people than the deadlier diseases, however, in part because it is more infectious.” -
Current COVID-19 deaths are just over 140,000 with that number expected to be around 180 ,000 by Oct 1st. with 3 months in the year remaining. Some 32,000 lives could be saved before then if more people wore face masks
For the doubters and skeptics who claim that more people die from auto deaths, the latest annual data (2018) shows that to be totally false. And even gun related deaths of all kinds, including suicides, pales in comparison to the mortality rates we are now seeing for the coronavirus pandemic in the States.
The false sources of information or lack of real scientific data that emanates from the White House and Trump News (formerly known as FOX News) have convinced enough people to ignore the CDC warnings that could stop the spread of this deadly virus. A week doesn’t go by that I find myself in some businesses, especially small convenience stores, where Mr. or Mrs Bubba is mask-less, exhaling the aerosols from their lungs that may or may not include the COVID-19 bug.
Their failure to understand that that aerosol mist they’ve emitted can stay airborne for several hours and that the next poor mask-less fool that walks into it may likely become yet another COVID-19 case.
It's demoralizing to watch how this pandemic has been politicized by those whose primary goal is to preserve a failing campaign of the incompetent blowhard in the Oval office. And now our children, teachers and medical first responders will be put at even greater risks as the new school year approaches and the Denier-in-Chief demands that we reopen schools.
How people continue to defend a man who has never demonstrated any empathy in this tragic situation leads me to conclude that what moral compass which once guided most political leaders over the last two and half centuries has been replaced by a materialistic, self-serving, power-grabbing model, setting humanity on a course that will have autocrats sacrificing their least powerful and most populous constituents to serve egomaniacal agendas.
Recovering from this will not happen anytime soon, if at all, depending on what happens November 3rd, especially if previously complacent voters fail to show up at the polls.
