Each day, we hit a new record of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Thursday's record of 163, 402 new cases, with 67,906 hospitalizations, marks six of the last nine days that we've posted records. It was just eight days ago that we first reached 100,000 new cases of the virus. Multiple state are reimposing restrictions on restaurants, bars, and other businesses, limiting the number of people they can serve as the virus spreads unchecked. Chicago issued a 30 day stay-at-home advisory, asking residents to cancel Thanksgiving plans as the pandemic causes area hospitals to reach capacity for intensive care units and medical personnel.
Meanwhile, delusional sociopath and impeached one-termer Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump has bailed out on his job, focusing on his grievances and texting lies about voter fraud and a stolen election, interspersed with rounds of golf. From the Washington Post:
"On Thursday, six American service members were killed in a helicopter crash during a peacekeeping mission in Egypt. Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in North Florida, contributing to severe flooding. The number of Americans infected with the novel coronavirus continued at a record-setting pace, sending the stock market tumbling.
At the White House, President Trump spent the day as he has most others this week — sequestered from public view, tweeting grievances, falsehoods and misinformation about the election results and about Fox News’s coverage of him.
Neither he nor his aides briefed reporters on the news of the day or reacted to Democratic leaders who accused Republicans of imperiling the pandemic response by 'refusing to accept reality' over the election results." (our emphasis)
Trump's been bunkered away in the White (Supremacist) House for days, only venturing out Wednesday to show up almost 30 minutes late to the wreath laying at Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (the timing was important: the ceremony was to begin exactly at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month, symbolizing the end of World War I). He left after a few minutes without speaking to the rain-soaked crowd, to return to the White (Supremacist) House to watch cable programming and tweet out his growing, impotent rage.
