See how there’s two distinct spikes? The first is from our initial poor response to the virus and the second is from efforts to prematurely reopen and force the country back to normal coupled with all the protests and marches in the streets. Make no mistake... this failure isn’t partisan. It’s on all of us as a country that we’ve failed in our response to the pandemic.
Do you personally know anyone that believes riots are a good thing?
Who on earth would believe cutting off China would have in any way prevented an airborne virus from spreading around the world? Do you realize the virus came in from all over and not just one single country? Regardless of how it got here, that doesn’t change the US having one of the worst national responses to this crisis that has affected every country on earth in some form or another. Look at the second spike. That’s once the virus was already here and spreading and we had people (like the president) encouraging states to open up and people to go back to normal. That’s not China’s fault. That’s us.
Because that’s just how deaths are recorded, really. To use my dad as an example, he had lung cancer and died after a year and a half of treatment for lung cancer (this was 15 years ago, mind you) but on his death certificate it doesn’t say he died of lung cancer, it says he died of complications from pneumonia. He had a pre-existing condition (lung cancer) but it was actually a viral infection in his lungs that complicated things and led to his early death. That’s what’s happening to far too many Covid patients. They have some underlying health problem and then they catch this virus that makes it incredibly difficult to recover from and they die and it’s the viral infection that actually killed them that gets listed on the death certificate.
Just to be clear, the government isn't going out of its way to burden churches. Instead, people who have religion as their hobby are facing the exact same burden as any other secular group with similar leisure-time activities.
