1 in 620 Americans Dead

I made this meme a few days ago, so it is worse now. To figure out the running total is very simple math. The numerator, which is the number of Americans, remains pretty stable (I used 332,309,730) and the denominator, which is number of people dead from COVID, keeps growing at over a thousand people a day, every day, week in and week out, sometimes surging far highter than that, seldom dropping, and all the while we continue to not stay apart, not wear masks, and not keep each other safe. In Iowa, where the governor has done one of the worst jobs of protecting residents, the number is 1 in 568 dead. The young go out, they get COVID, they may or may not get sick, some of them very sick but most of them will be fine, and then they give it to older people, who get very sick, some die, some lose kidney function, some are permanently scarred in other ways, and no one escapes the misery. Everyone knows someone who has died. There are families that have lost many members because they congregated together. We are no better at responding to a pandemic than we were in the Middle Ages. All the informationin the world, all the tools to beat it are now known and yet we still ignore them and preventable deaths continue to rise. The math is simple, the misery is far reaching, and the GOP has blood on its hands.