It seems odd that DUpipo want Massachusetts to be a "mega outbreak", but looking at real data,
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/massachusetts/ , it's not even close. They are experiencing a bump in new cases, currently small but rising. It's currently ~1/3 of MA's early spring bump, and ~1/8 of MA's winter surge. As to daily deaths, they are "up" into the single digits after a couple of weeks with some zero-death days - not proportional to the new cases bump. By way of contrast, during the winter surge daily deaths were 30X the current tiny bump, and after a fall, plateaued during the early part of the spring bump.
As canaries in the coal mine go, this one escaped its cage before it could be brought into the coal mine.
It's kind of weird, too, to see anti-Covid-vaxxers
(elsewhere) and DU-fear-nurturers orgasming over the same incident.
Just as a taunt to any onlurking DUmmies, in about 35 minutes I'll be heading up to San Leandro to participate in my first in-person running event since February 2020. It'll probably be between 1000 and 2000 runners (and walkers like me), masks not required. I'll be walking the 5K, on a course to goes along the edge of SF Bay, including doing the perimeter of a small peninsula (the 10K and half marathon courses don't go out on that peninsula - BTDTGTTSs). Being both recovered and vaxxed, there is probably greater risk that I'll fall into SF Bay than of Covid from the couple hundred runners I'll be greeting or who'll be passing me on the course.
