[Cajundaddy]

Yes Covid 19 has become a giant political punching bag only to further divide the Right from the Left. Kinda sad because it got in our way and cost us a much longer period of community spread and business interruptions.

I think conditions still vary a great deal regionally with the NE having very limited hospitalizations but CA, AZ, TX, FL still seeing significant serious illness. In SoCal the infection numbers peaked in July with hospitalizations and deaths peaking in August. Locally our major med center has 65 serious covid patients and that number was 90 just 2 weeks ago. In March and April it averaged 12-15.

For every covid case that dies, roughly another 10 will survive with serious long term heart, lung, kidney damage, or stroke. A full 10% of infected persons contract serious illness while another 10% have mild symptoms. 80% of infected have little or no symptoms at all. It is a very strange disease with a lot of unknown unknowns and it seems to affect everyone who gets ill a bit differently.

Can we pull off all the stops and just let her run? I think the price would be very high and hospitals would rapidly reach capacity of care.