Just passed 25M confirmed Covid-19 cases

We've just passed 25M confirmed cases of coronavirus infection. That's less than 1% of the world population (7.8B). We have a long way to go. It's only just sinking in to people that this is far from over. The US deaths per 1K population has reached 562, same as Brazil. Shocking. 

The US spends more on healthcare but has the lowest life expectancy of any OECD country. It has the highest suicide rate among the nations surveyed. How can this be? It's all so broken. 

I have been unable to write and I'm not the only one. People all over are reporting inability to concentrate. We all struggle to deal with the pandemic yet we morosely follow the numbers. It's like the old days with the Vietnam war and the tallies of deaths on both sides and horrific images of children being maimed and massacred. 

Elections are around the corner. I hope people have been shocked out of complacency and will do the right thing. VOTE!

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Last updated: August 29, 2020, 15:57 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases:

25,013,265

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Deaths:

843,096

Recovered:

17,380,667

The clock keeps ticking

It's mid-August and the pandemic is just beginning to resurge. People just can't stay away from each other, and so they slip into their old behaviours. It's a very 'me' centric world. 'It's not going to affect me. I'm young and healthy,' and they congregate in bars, on beaches and on the streets. There are 7.8 billion people in the world right now. Even if there are 10 times more infections than documented, that's less than 3% of the population. We have a long way to go. 

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Last updated: August 16, 2020, 13:53 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases:

21,674,447

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Deaths:

769,957

Recovered:

14,385,381

Atomic Bombs and Pandemics

This week is the 75th Anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, where 100,000 people died. Between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is estimated that 129,000–226,000 were killed. Maybe because it was men who dropped bombs that killed instantly, the atrocity committed by Americans for 'just cause' seems so catastrophically evil.  

Less than a month ago, I reported 12M cases of confirmed Covid-19. Now it's up to 18M and almost 700,000 dead. Yet, the fact that this virus, which behaves so unlike anything previously known to man not unlike the atom bomb of the microbial world, has killed so many over the course of six months is hard to get my head around. It has made it almost impossible for me to write anything but factual pieces and blogs. Everything else seems so pointless. 

Coronavirus Cases:

18,069,950

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Deaths:

689,755

Recovered:

11,363,390