Disasters in Slow Motion

  Twenty years....it seems impossible that it has been twenty years since the towers fell and the world changed forever. There are people in college born after that world-changing event, that never experienced what (for us) was the world as normal. We have been at war for twenty years because of those attacks. Those visceral, gut-wrenching attacks, that we watched play out on live television. 2,996 people died that day.   We united. We stood. The sleeping giant was awakened.   In the US, 1,761 people died of Covid yesterday. 677,017 Americans have died since the outbreak.   We are fractured. We whine. We cannot be bothered.   I guess, if people dying on ventilators were televised, maybe more of the average Americans would give a damn. 54% vaccinated....   Meanwhile, here in Florida, 1 in every 21 Floridians CURRENTLY has Covid and our governor takes PRIDE in how "open" our state it. We are dying down here. Children are dying down here...but he's still attac...

  United States - Population: 331,022,651 - Cases: 41,562,429 - Infected: 1 in 8 Deaths: 674,589 - Death Rate: 1 in 491 - Mortality Rate: 1.62% Active Cases: 9,141,507 - Active: 1 in 36 Alabama - Population: 4,908,620 - Cases: 736,518 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 12,552 - Death Rate: 1 in 391 - Mortality Rate: 1.70% Active Cases: Not Available - Active: Not Available Alaska - Population: 735,720 - Cases: 90,271 - Infected: 1 in 8 Deaths: 442 - Death Rate: 1 in 1,665 - Mortality Rate: 0.49% Active Cases: 21,060 - Active: 1 in 35 Arizona - Population: 7,378,490 - Cases: 1,039,492 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 19,141 - Death Rate: 1 in 385 - Mortality Rate: 1.84% Active Cases: 83,663 - Active: 1 in 88 Arkansas - Population: 3,039,000 - Cases: 469,977 - Infected: 1 in 6 Deaths: 7,169 - Death Rate: 1 in 424 - Mortality Rate: 1.53% Active Cases: 19,828 - Active: 1 in 153 California - Population: 39,747,267 - Cases: 4,463,803 - Infected: 1 in 9 Deaths: 66,934 - Dea...

  Updating for early September   Florida 8/10 Cases: 2,827,450 - Infected: 1 in 8 Deaths: 39,934 - Death Rate: 1 in 542 - Mortality Rate: 1.41% Active Cases: 481,777 - Active: 1 in 45 Florida 8/16 Cases: 2,925,074 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 40,584 - Death Rate: 1 in 533 - Mortality Rate: 1.39% Active Cases: 572,002 - Active: 1 in 38 Florida 8/21 Cases: 3,086,559 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 41,990 - Death Rate: 1 in 516 - Mortality Rate: 1.36% Active Cases: 722,052 - Active: 1 in 30 Florida 8/25 Cases: 3,175,740 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 42,731 - Death Rate: 1 in 507 - Mortality Rate: 1.35% Active Cases: 803,489 - Active: 1 in 27 Florida 8/31 Cases: 3,277,285 - Infected: 1 in 7 Deaths: 44,553 - Death Rate: 1 in 486 - Mortality Rate: 1.36% Active Cases: 893,067 - Active: 1 in 24 Florida 9/10 Cases: 3,436,778 - Infected: 1 in 6 Deaths: 48,273 - Death Rate: 1 in 448 - Mortality Rate: 1.40% Active Cases: 1,012,630 - Active: 1 in 21 In the nine full days since my last check (there a...