Ask A Genius 726: Covid Numbers Dropping Fast
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/02/23
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s the most recent update on Covid numbers?
Rick Rosner: Covid numbers are dropping fast in a lot of countries. England, the U.S where I live in L.A County Covid numbers are down about 95% from the Omicron peak of six weeks ago or a month ago but there’s still like 10 times as high as the lull in summer 2021. So they’re still super high but much less lower than the insanely high new case numbers of a month ago. And this has been the case with throughout Covid. Covid hasn’t done anybody any good by taking out anybody bad. All the shithead Republicans in Congress, Republican Senators survived it. I think Covid still has high numbers in Russia but not high enough to stop them from this incursion into Ukraine. Covid has killed more than a million Americans, more than one in 300 Americans, more than one in 58 American seniors; it’s the deadliest event in U.S history but it hasn’t knocked out any of the maligned forces in American Life.
Fox News is tooled along the Republicans and the Senate has survived unscathed. It hasn’t killed a big enough percentage of Americans to piss off Republicans against Republicans. So, shitty stuff keeps getting done by Republicans. In Republican states, one state is on the verge of passing no abortions after 30 days of pregnancy when almost no one knows they’re pregnant.
Jacobsen: Which is the whole point…
Rosner: Yeah, that is the whole point because the deal is they count how long you’ve been pregnant from your last period I think and you don’t even get pregnant until two weeks. On day one of your pregnancy according to the medical definition of pregnancy, you’ve already been pregnant for two weeks; just that’s the way they count it. So you get pregnant and then you’ve got maybe 16 days to figure out you’re pregnant and go get an abortion in this state, I forget which Southern State it is. I want to say Georgia but that’s not Georgia, but it’s a civil war fucking state.
So anyway, Covid’s done nobody any good where you would have kind of hoped it would perversely stop some of the malign forces. Texas is just passed a law that you’re not allowed to help trans kids be trans. If a school finds out a kid is being trans, the school has to out the kid to his parents and you’re not allowed to approve of the kid being trans. It’s a crazy new law but just kids basically in Texas are no longer allowed to be trans. We can have guarded hope that Covid will drop to its lowest numbers since the pandemic began by summer if we don’t have any more new cases. I mean there is a new more infectious variant on Omicron that may slow down of the drop in Covid cases but we may have a normal summer and if we’re super lucky, a summer like the olden times where a lot of people feel comfortable walking around outdoors without masks and going to restaurants and stuff. The number of new cases per day may drop across America to under one in 50,000 people which is great.
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