Parsing Out Dystopia: Waiting for the Indian Variant
The worldwide daily number of COVID-19 cases recently set an new high as we clearly are in a second wave of the pandemic globally. This is a graph from the excellent Johns Hopkins interactive site . The number of confirmed new daily cases in the US are down sharply from the winter months. Nevertheless, it has plateaued for the moment between 80,000 and 60,000 new cases per day. I got my second Moderna jab last week. By May 1, I should be as protected as medically possible against the virus. I am looking forward to going out to lunch and dinner in restaurants again. To seeing my friends from Atlanta. I am a hermit and an introverted person by nature but even I'm ready to get some social interaction. The truth is that this is all an experiment. Statistically, I have about 4 chances out of 10,000 of still contracting COVID-19. Several thousand people who were inoculated have already gotten it anyway, according to the CDC . But, apparently none of them died from it, so the v