covid surge

And . . . here comes the surge.  It turns out that having tens of thousands of people congregate in close proximity all day long, up to 60,000, is not an awesome idea in the middle of a pandemic.  I said in my last entry that numbers were high that day but had otherwise been good.  Well, numbers have been high every day since then, and just jumped again today.  We’ve had (in my county) an average of 57 new cases per day over the last week as compared to 36 the week before, a 60% increase, and today we had 94 new cases, the first time we’ve had that many since the first week of May.

In my opinion, the government has lost the moral authority to impose restrictions.  They’ve permitted gatherings of tens of thousands while simultaneously forbidding people to leave their homes and have gatherings of even five people.  Now, gatherings of five – FIVE – people are permitted but most everything is still shut down.  And leaders are issuing supportive statements about the protests.  I’ve seen photos of socially distant protests elsewhere, but there has been nothing socially distant about them here.  Ug.  I’m just sick of all of this.

Also, apparently the Washington state DOH has been overcounting negative tests, meaning that they’ve been understating the percent positive tests.  Really?  Why are these people so incompetent?