I guess I was premature….
In last week’s post , I was happy to announce that it seemed the pandemic was really over, since for the first time, the numbers showed a 0.0% increase in both Covid cases and Covid deaths (the numbers were actually positive in both cases, but less than .05, so they were rounded down). This was the first time that either increase had been 0.0%, and I considered the fact that both were at that level to be some sort of sign from heaven that the pandemic was truly over (I might have been influenced by the fact that the White House is ending the pandemic emergency, of course). Unfortunately, I must have misinterpreted my heavenly signs. The 0.0% increases must actually have been part of an elaborate heavenly plot to teach us all that it’s too soon to think we can let down our guard: Cases increased by .1% this week and deaths increased by .2% (they were 370 last week vs. 76 the previous week). To give you some perspective, the last time we had more deaths than last week was the week of...