A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic

Tighten the straps on your masks because we're about to see just how much sickness and death we can tolerate in this country.

This week, the U.S. reported its highest ever number of coronavirus cases, after all states moved to reopen their economies and loosen social distancing restrictions.

The Atlantic writes:

"Ignore any attempt to explain away what is happening: The American coronavirus pandemic is once again at risk of spinning out of control. A new and brutal stage now menaces the Sun Belt states, whose residents face a nearly unbroken chain of outbreaks stretching from South Carolina to California. Across the South and large parts of the West, cases are soaring, hospitalizations are spiking, and a greater portion of tests are coming back positive.

The country’s second surge has arrived—and it is hammering states, such as Texas and Arizona, that escaped the first surge mostly unscathed."

The problem is that our national leadership has basically given up on containing the virus. We'll see how that plays out with the rising number of sick people and deaths... and at the ballot box in November.