"Show me the death chart"

[swag]

Link to tweet

[Laelth]

1. That's poignant. n/t

-Laelth

[Shermann]

2. Don't forget he said under 100,000 - 200,000 deaths would be a "very good job" a while back

I hope we don't get to 200,000 but it seems likely with fall and winter still ahead.

[PatSeg]

3. They aren't actual people to him

Just numbers and he doesn't even know what the numbers are.

[progree]

4. And recently: Daily New Deaths (7 day moving avg): +55% in 15 days

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

scroll down to the graph "Daily New Deaths in the United States"
Below the graph, click the check box to the right of "7-day moving average"
7/5: 516 deaths
7/20: 802 deaths
+55% in 15 days

Inevitably following the big rise in Daily New Cases (scroll up three graphs).
7 day moving average
6/12: 21,697 cases
7/20: 68,263 cases
a 3.15-fold increase in 5 1/2 weeks

Cases began rising 6/12, and 3 weeks 2 days later, on 7/5, deaths started rising.
(7 day moving averages)