On December 10, 2020 more Americans died in s single day than died on the invasion of Normandy in WWII. Now, more than half a million Americans have died from COVID-19. That is more than the number of Americans who died in WWI, WWII and the Vietnam wars combined.
Daignault said, “This is our generation’s D-Day.” The entire country is a war zone. Today the troops are the doctors, nurses and medical personnel risking their own health to treat the sick.
Everyone is fatigued as we near the one year anniversary of the start of the world wide pandemic. People are tired of wearing masks and want life to return to “normal.” But with new variants of the virus spreading through Florida and the US, this is not the time to let our guards down. The war is far from over.
Case numbers have been falling as have the number of deaths from the virus but we are just now down to the numbers that equal the summer surge. Back then we hoped that was as bad as it could get and people gathered together to celebrate July 4th and other holidays creating super spreader events. We are just now coming down from the Christmas, New Years and Superbowl superspreaders. The insurrection on the capitol had t be the worst imaginable superspreader event and those numbers have yet to be seen. Hopefully everyone who can get a shot of vaccine will get a shot. Right now we are inn a race to keep up with the potential spread of the highly more contagious UK variant the spreads 70% more efficiently. Wear a mask, social distance and wash your hands the end is in sight.