1956 deaths reported by Worldometer. This is the highest single day total since the first week of May, when the CFR was much higher.
It's such a helpless feeling, seeing deaths go up, and knowing the inevitability of a further rise for at least the next several weeks, and probably much longer. An Ohio State poll (of America) found that about 40% of people plan to attend family gatherings at Thanksgiving.
It seems that the more dependent we become on technology, the less willing we are to sacrifice anything. I mean, it wasn't all that long ago that if you didn't go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, all you could do was call and talk on the phone. Now you can have videos where everyone can not only hear you but see you, see your surroundings, see you move around. It's not the same as face-to-face, hugs and kisses, but it's a lot better than nothing. Gloria Estefan even argues that we are more intimate with each other on the internet, because we get an extreme close-up of another person's expressions and gestures that we don't normally have in the flesh. Yet for so many people, that's not enough.
It's getting worse for Gavin Newsom. He claimed the dinner party was outdoors, but pictures by someone at the restaurant show that it was in a room open to the outdoors through sliding glass doors. Apparently the party was making so much noise (or in current terms, spitting out aerosols with such great intensity) that other patrons complained, so the doors were closed. The guests did not appear to be maintaining much distance from each other, and of course you can't wear a mask while you're eating. Plus, two of the guests were officials of the CA Medical Association.
What puzzles me most is not the hypocrisy, which is standard among politicians, but that none of these dinner guests apparently had any fear of contracting C19. If I were some top CA official and had been invited to the party, it wouldn't take a sense of honesty and fair play to keep me from declining--I would flat out be afraid to. Is dinner at a restaurant such a priceless experience that it's worth gambling your health on? I wouldn't accept even a mild case as worth it for dinner out, let alone the possibility of something far worse.
Do as I say, not as I do.
It's such a helpless feeling, seeing deaths go up, and knowing the inevitability of a further rise for at least the next several weeks, and probably much longer. An Ohio State poll (of America) found that about 40% of people plan to attend family gatherings at Thanksgiving.
It seems that the more dependent we become on technology, the less willing we are to sacrifice anything. I mean, it wasn't all that long ago that if you didn't go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, all you could do was call and talk on the phone. Now you can have videos where everyone can not only hear you but see you, see your surroundings, see you move around. It's not the same as face-to-face, hugs and kisses, but it's a lot better than nothing. Gloria Estefan even argues that we are more intimate with each other on the internet, because we get an extreme close-up of another person's expressions and gestures that we don't normally have in the flesh. Yet for so many people, that's not enough.
It's getting worse for Gavin Newsom. He claimed the dinner party was outdoors, but pictures by someone at the restaurant show that it was in a room open to the outdoors through sliding glass doors. Apparently the party was making so much noise (or in current terms, spitting out aerosols with such great intensity) that other patrons complained, so the doors were closed. The guests did not appear to be maintaining much distance from each other, and of course you can't wear a mask while you're eating. Plus, two of the guests were officials of the CA Medical Association.
What puzzles me most is not the hypocrisy, which is standard among politicians, but that none of these dinner guests apparently had any fear of contracting C19. If I were some top CA official and had been invited to the party, it wouldn't take a sense of honesty and fair play to keep me from declining--I would flat out be afraid to. Is dinner at a restaurant such a priceless experience that it's worth gambling your health on? I wouldn't accept even a mild case as worth it for dinner out, let alone the possibility of something far worse.
Do as I say, not as I do.
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