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"More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States each day for the past month"

This is 2 weeks old and already out of date. Numbers are in freefall. It's now at 1,357. And cases have dropped sharply and consistently for a few weeks which means the (lagging) drop in deaths will continue for a few weeks.

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What? The daily average is still at 1,800.

Worldometers says 1,357 for the 7-day average. But regardless of differences in sources and collections, the trends are the same.

It's still about four airplanes worth of people crashing daily, to put it into perspective.

Not to mention people under immunosuppression or legitimately unable to get vaccinated (e.g. allergies or immunodeficient) - these poor souls are effectively locked into their homes as a permanent jail.

Must we then have vaccinated people join them out of some sense of solidarity?

There are people confined to wheelchairs yet we allow others to walk.

Being vaccinated does not prevent the spread or infection, it only reduces the severity of symptoms, so this doesn't work. Having a vaccinated person sit with them is just as unsafe as an unvaccinated person. Testing, with a period of isolation before contact, is the only safe method. This is what I have to do with my mom.

Yeah its only World Trade Center tower 1 every day. Its not like we'd go to war over those numbers.

>> these poor souls are effectively locked into their homes as a permanent jail.

Why do you believe this to be true? Seems exaggerated to me.

I know a couple of people who are in exactly that predicament. They're scared shitless of catching the virus - and they need 24/7 at-home assistance, which means at least five people that could potentially catch and transmit the virus.

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