| Lindsey is an asshole. | 
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						United Airlines said they don't see a resumption of normal activities until 2024.
 2024!  | 
						
 I don’t understand. Isn’t major vaccine penetration predicted within a year? How can they make this 3-4 year prediction?  | 
							
						
 I heard NIH has told its employees they will be online only until at least Nov 2021. so those in the know are not fooled with vaccine propaganda.  | 
							
						
 We don't know if we will have an effective vaccine in a year, if we do, many people won't take it, and even if they did, people won't immediately start flying again.  | 
| I remember when the 10,000 deaths horrified me.... I dread the numbers in January 2021. Mask up people. Keep it going with precautions. Damn Trump! | 
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						The CDC has a new excess death number. Through October 3, the US has 299,028 excess deaths.
 Officially, 2/3 of those deaths have been attributed to Covid. But the real toll is closer to 300,000 Covid deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm6942e2_w  | 
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						According to Trump, the US is "turning the corner."
 In a sense, he is right. With unchecked spread in most of the states (pretty much everywhere but Alaska, Maine and Vermont) and hospitals in the upper midwest at capacity, we are about to turn the corner to a long, dark winter of death and illness. If, like Jared Kushner, you aim for "herd mentality" then we will get the horrific death count and as bad, untold numbers of Americans with permanent organ damage. This is an unmitigated disaster by any metric, and it is shocking that 40% of the country is just fine with it.  |