Which Way Wednesday – Fed Edition

800,000 deaths . That's the milestone we hit today, less than two years into the Covid crisis.  If it never ends, 50 years from now it could be 20M dead – will the number matter then?  Well, that won't happen – it's slowing down, right?  No.  That is not right.  Since August 1st, call it 5.5 (26%)  months out of 21 – we've had 186,000 (23%) deaths – this thing is really not slowing down at all.    Now, it's not a Global catastrophe.  The US is unique in the number of infections and deaths in all of the World.  Our lack of public health care and our disdain for facts and science combine to keep us dying in droves and our hospitals are filling up fast again.  1/3 of our population still isn't vaccinated – that's 100M Americans just walking around as if nothing at all is wrong – and these are not the kind of people who wear masks, wash their hands or maintain social distancing protocols either.   These anti-vaxxers are a powerful voting block being courted by the Conservatives and they have been going to court to prevent vaccine mandates, mask mandates and other measures meant to discourage the spread of Covid – it's the Right to Infect they are protecting and it's making America the most dangerous country on Earth to live in.  1,260 people a day (average) are dying of Covid in Amercia in December – up from 223 average in July – we are very much going the wrong way – again. In Florida,  an epicenter of the current surge , hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients shot higher in the past five weeks, data from tracking group CovidActNow show. The climb is sharper than last winter, when it took nearly three months for a smaller surge to peak in Florida. AdventHealth Central Florida was treating 1,060 Covid-19 patients on Friday , surpassing a previous peak of 900 in January . We've had a small pullback in the markets but nothing that indicates any real fear of what is obviously a strong resurgence in Covid cases.  Readings out of China indicate a significant slowdown in November as restrictions came back on and Europe did the same so we can expect the same results when they announce    IN PROGRESS    

800,000 deaths.

That's the milestone we hit today, less than two years into the Covid crisis.  If it never ends, 50 years from now it could be 20M dead – will the number matter then?  Well, that won't happen – it's slowing down, right?  No.  That is not right.  Since August 1st, call it 5.5 (26%) months out of 21 – we've had 186,000 (23%) deaths – this thing is really not slowing down at all.  

Now, it's not a Global catastrophe.  The US is unique in the number of infections and deaths in all of the World.  Our lack of public health care and our disdain for facts and science combine to keep us dying in droves and our hospitals are filling up fast again.  1/3 of our population still isn't vaccinated – that's 100M Americans just walking around as if nothing at all is wrong – and these are not the kind of people who wear masks, wash their hands or maintain social distancing protocols either.  

These anti-vaxxers are a powerful voting block being courted by the Conservatives and they have been going to court to prevent vaccine mandates, mask mandates and other measures meant to discourage the spread of Covid – it's the Right to Infect they are protecting and it's making America the most dangerous country on Earth to live in.  1,260 people a day (average) are dying of Covid in Amercia in December – up from 223 average in July – we are very much going the wrong way – again.

PHOTO: ANGUS MORDANT/BLOOMBERG NEWSIn Florida, an epicenter of the current surge, hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients shot higher in the past five weeks, data from tracking group CovidActNow show. The climb is sharper than last winter, when it took nearly three months for a smaller surge to peak in Florida. AdventHealth Central Florida was treating 1,060 Covid-19 patients on Friday, surpassing a previous peak of 900 in January.

We've had a small pullback in the markets but nothing that indicates any real fear of what is obviously a strong resurgence in Covid cases.  Readings out of China indicate a significant slowdown in November as restrictions came back on and Europe did the same so we can expect the same results when they announce 

 

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