The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 11/09/20

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Last edited Mon Nov 9, 2020, 10:02 PM - Edit history (1)

All times Pacific, source: Johns Hopkins/NBC News

At noon
Confirmed cases US - 10,069,322
Deaths US - 239,494

At 1:24pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,090,612
Deaths US - 239,555

At 3:02pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,150,744
Deaths US - 239,897

At 4:32pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,169,285
Deaths US - 239,996

[rzemanfl]

1. I think there is a typo in the 1:24 death count. Not 8, 3. n/t

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3. Thank goodness for editors! Seriously!

The two women who trade off as editors of our Indivisible group's weekly "Call to Action" emails every weekend make sure our work is perfected! A second set of eyes on the work is helpful. I swear - sometimes I've read and reread our stuff maybe 15 or 16 times throughout a weekend and I can STILL miss something!

[rzemanfl]

5. Thank you for the promotion from silly old man on the Internet.

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6. My pleasure!

[apcalc]

2. Very good site says Deaths now 242,782

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

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4. Update -

At noon
Confirmed cases US - 10,069,322
Deaths US - 239,494

At 1:24pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,090,612
Deaths US - 239,555

At 3:02pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,150,744
Deaths US - 239,897

At 4:32pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,169,285
Deaths US - 239,996 *


At 5:38pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,173,333+
Deaths US - 240,051+ *

At 6:21pm
Confirmed cases US - 10,174,915
Deaths US - 240,058 *

* American deaths hit a new high. Hit and actually passed 240-thousand. Hard even to wrap one's mind around that number. That's 240-thousand-PLUS families who will share a Zoom this Thanksgiving with a loved one missing - missing FOREVERMORE. A loved one who might otherwise have been there, able to join in, share jokes and the latest gossip, show what they're eating, tell who they've talked to or heard from lately, describe what they just did to get their garden ready for winter, or comment on what they just saw on Netflix. You know. The plain ol' regular pleasantly ordinary stuff. Never again. It might be Grandpa who always made everybody laugh because he'd play his suspenders like they were strings on a stand-up bass. It might be that favorite Aunt who always wore this neat antique ring that one of the little girls in the family always asked if she could wear for awhile. It might be that cousin who'd done so well on his/her SATs that the long-dreamed-of college acceptance had beaten the rush to their door. Gone. Gone forever. Their voices silenced. Forever. Their laugh - never again. Their smile. Those funny expressions they always used. Gone. Lost. Forever.

And we need to remember that, as we track the numbers and the numbers keep ticking upward. Each number is flesh and blood. And tears.