I had big plans for today’s entry and I’m going to push them to later this week. Last night brought on a particularly bad bout of insomnia. Whether it’s the lack of sleep, the constant state of anxiety and dread, or just a bad day, I’ve been struggling to wrap my brain around some of the numbers that are being reported. I’m going to mostly let those numbers speak for themselves today.
As of this writing there are over one million COVID-19 cases in the United States and over 57,000 people have died from the pandemic. I want to put that latter number in perspective for a minute because it is rapidly approaching the number of American men and women killed in the Vietnam War: 58,220.