So the question MUST be - "you are STILL 'struggling' with this, girlfriend?"

You are STILL "struggling" with this? By NOW??????? I beg your pardon??? WHAT "struggle"?

This is something you're still "struggling" with? Seriously???????

You haven't seen enough by now?

You haven't heard enough by now?

And you haven't noticed the ripple effect of all this by now?

You haven't noticed the "down ballot" of all this - that's now playing out in many many forms?

What - you just waking up or something?

How is it that, FIVE months til the next election, you're still "struggling" with what the right thing to do is, here? What the right thing to do WAS - at the very least by the end of year one of this nightmare. But we've been through almost a full four years of this by now. And you're still "struggling" with what keeps smacking you in the face?

Just for comparison's sake... here's what the last tracking showed (6/1/20, Monday evening)

At 6:01pm Monday evening, June first.
Confirmed cases US - 1,804,977
Deaths US - 105,168

At 7:36pm, last night - only domestic data available. Source: NBC News.
Confirmed cases US - 1,852,892
Deaths US - 107,852

Look at the difference. An increase, but this is now three days later. The increase is there, but it's slowing. Earlier in the pandemic, the difference here would be reflected in an hour or less.

Then again, it's slowing, FOR NOW. The fear in the past few days arises out of all those huge crowds, that close contact and no social distancing, and not everybody's wearing a mask, or being meticulous about what they touch. The strong and repeated recommendations for caution to prevent the spread of the virus seem to be a thing of the past. All but forgotten. Two weeks from now will tell the tale - whether hospitalizations start rising noticeably and the number of cases - and of deaths - both start spiking. Governor Andrew Cuomo has often noted "you tell me how much close contact there is today, and I'll tell you how many more cases there are, x-number of days from now."

That story - either way - will come in a week or two, considering how many days of protests and gatherings and demonstrations and crowds packed tightly together. With cheering, crying, singing, hugging, all the things we've spent some three months not doing. And in some cases, wind - helicopter-generated and horseback driven - that can spread micro droplets all over the place. Those droplets are lighter than air, and float for much longer than what you'd immediately think of as a "droplet" that comes out of a faucet and falls straight down. Droplets don't do that. They're lighter than air. And they keep moving until gravity finally prevails.

The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 6/4/20

My apologies for the two days' absence. There just weren't any stats to report, as the George Floyd story overtook everything. (Which it should have, understandably.)

Last night was the first data graphic I saw in two days.

At 7:36pm, last night - only domestic data available. Source: NBC News.
Confirmed cases US - 1,852,892
Deaths US - 107,852

OUCH!!!!!

That one's gonna burn, for sure. As it should.

Saddam, Hitler, and trump. Three blind mice.

You sure are in some great company, donald.

He wants EVERYTHING to be Barack Obama's fault.

Correction - PRESIDENT Barack Obama.

I can't speak of trump with that title attached. THAT'S what's "fake". Him, posing in the job he stole.

There was a little bit of me that halfway expected that to happen, for real.

Except I thought it would happen coming up from the ground - consuming him in flames.

Hey, either way works.

Sacrilege is sacrilege.

don the bunker boy. Right there with other birds of a feather: Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

Like that tweet says - while they gas their own people.

Wow - you're in FINE company, donald, I must say.

EXCELLENT.

Us versus me me me me me me and more me.

No wonder these assholes support him. Birds of a feather.

Well, whenever it happened, the fact that it happened at all is what counts.

It’s nice to see - sometimes a few things do catch up with that cheating, lying, conniving schmuck.