[reducesuffering]

My mistake, I meant per day, and the numbers reflect that. The January was not great, yes, but a few factors: greatly skewing elderly, even less likely in the blue areas OP most likely lives, masks have shown little effect in reducing covid spread, outside is nonexistent, and are they still driving when driving is much more dangerous? People got rightly fearful, but some people will always take things too far and become hypochondriacs, like some people are still by themselves masking in a car? Imo, by the stats, it looks like a tall order to be expecting everyone around them to mask when we estimate the actual effects that would have...

[klyrs]

That's only counting deaths. Long covid is much harder to measure, the numbers are significant and daunting. My spouse is so afflicted; she went from being one of the most productive and active people I've ever known, to incapable of doing an hour of work per day.