Day 77: 2020 Pandemic. 100,000 Officially; and its way under-counting the true toll

The official death toll passed 100,000 in the United States today. We know its vastly under-counting in many ways. For example, pneumonia deaths in Florida this past month were recorded at five times the rate they were a year ago. The same is true all across the country. A number of dead, who were not tested, don’t get tested and added to the list. They’re just written off.

A number of states are suppressing their counts for various reasons, none of them valid. Mainly political.

We still have no coordinated Federal response on any aspect of this and we won’t have one under this administration. This is criminal. Frankly, it’s murder.

Yesterday I watched the ball fields where I’d been taking Gus and Scout, crowded with kids and their parents practicing for the first time. Not a mask in sight. Yet, I also just spotted a buried article in the local news that three workers at a local Krogers had tested positive. A week ago. Yet the “official” count from the state for our county has remained flat. Something’s not adding up.

It’s going to get bad. Very bad, in June. The craziness of this past holiday weekend is going to light fires in a lot of places.

There are other things going on that will add to the disruption. A mentally ill president is on top of that list. He takes no responsibility and has delegated responsibility to the states but fails to support them and in many…