America surpasses 4 million Covid-19 cases, the most in the world. The country added 1 million known cases in just 15 days. https://t.co/nRER2k8Mlp
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 23, 2020
“There’s this pandemic fatigue,” said @Thomasctsai. “All eyes were on New York. Houston is New York now. Miami is New York now. Phoenix is New York now. We need that shared collective urgency.” https://t.co/pz1lLJEmZR
— Michael B. Kelley (@MichaelBKelley) July 24, 2020
It may just be we’re all desperate for a sliver of hope, but it seems as though ‘people’ — and not just in the U.S. — are reaching the Once bitten, twice shy stage of pandemic awareness. Enough people have watched the curve trend downwards and then rebound, gone back to jobs that have been reshuttered, witnessed relatives and neighbors suffer & die that facile explanations about ‘no worse than the flu, really’ or ‘look at how well the stock market is doing’ just aren’t reassuring any more. Of course there’s a hard core of Corona-Truthers who won’t change their behavior short of being on ICU care, and with this virus it only takes a few covidiots to keep the virus in circulation…
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