The United States has now surpassed 44 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 44,054,979 cases resulting in 707,710 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.6%.
It took 9 days to go from 43 to 44 million cases as it did when we went from 42 to 43 million cases. Things aren't getting worse but they aren't getting better either. When we get to 45 million cases I hope the number of days it takes to get there are in double digits. This might be a lot for which to ask, but we ought to ask.
We should ask because when COVID cases hit 43 million, President Biden took his booster shot. "Comedian" Joe Rogan suggested Biden faked getting the shot. It would be a joke if not for the fact that millions of people listen to Rogan's podcast and take what he says as the gospel truth. It's also no laughing matter when Rogan likens vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany. If what Rogan said was true then he would not have a podcast much less be alive. Rogan knows nothing of what he speaks but this does not prevent him from speaking. In this respect he is much like former President Trump when he claims he won the 2020 election.
But so long as the Rogans of the world are taken more seriously than the Dr. Fauci's of the world then things aren't going to get better. As long as the Rogans of the world are taken seriously then we are going to have anti-vaxxers harass parents and their children who get vaccinated. As long as Americans refuse to get vaccinated then more Americans are going to get sick, go to the hospital and die. And perhaps kill America in the process.
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