Thanks, for chrissakes.
I found a 90 million estimate from the CDC here...
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
(updated this month)
So your figure is within that range, and that estimate of nearly one in three Americans lends support to the overall scientific consensus that mask wearing and social distancing is quite important with a disease that has so many asymptomatic carriers.
So wear a mask if it makes you feel better. Better yet plan your routine according to the risks you can encounter or how it can affect other people in your life.
Point is scientists have led us to unsustainable lockdowns by overstating the deadliness of COVID-19.
We know that in Wuhan Chinese doctors failed to detect mild cases which led to thousands of cases exported to the world.
But now, thanks to Operation Warp Speed, we have a chance to do what didn’t happen last spring:
Concentrate on on vaccinating the most vulnerable first and building up herd immunity.
If only the the news media will start focusing on the realityof COVID-19.
In that the prognosis is not good.
Somebody ask the moron what news media he has been watching for most of 2020, as my sources, all MSM, including NYT, Boston Globe, WAPO, WSJ, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, have all been pretty consistent in informing Americans of the dangers of covid.
I suppose its better late than never for Red to finally start to understand the risks, but its a damn shame people of his ilk, ignored the risks and intentionally or not, spread the disease and deaths for months.
As an aside, someone might mention to Red that Operation Warp speed was an apparent success from the development-pharma side, in streamliing the approval and regulatory process, but its been a cluster fuck from the government side in actually getting vaccine to people.
Operation snail's pace might be a more apt moniker.
its as if the Trump administration wanted to sabotage efforts to help people who desperately want and need help,
and who could be that cruel and malevolent?