The deaths now, are from infections back in mid june.
Back then the lockdown had ended and you guys where around ~20k new daily infections (and were around 400-500 daily deaths).
By mid June (from where these deaths mostly come from), daily new cases had risen to ~40k pr day.

Today the US is at 65-75k pr day.
So the 1,000-1200 range of today, isn't the end of it, it will/should go up, following that higher new cases + 1months time delay = deaths.

Like I said earlier (in this thread, like a week ago?), I wouldn't be surprised if it hits 1500-2000 pr day, because of those +75,000 new daily cases days.
Its just it lags behinde by a month or more.

On a bus right now, no one is wearing a mask. Is this how I get COVID lol

IT was slow going at first

Yep, very possible.

It does seem the growth has been stopped again, or the changes in reporting are having an effect. Or testing has been decreased. Annoying there's no way to know until the reported deaths peak again.

The week over week change is almost down to 100% for the last 3 days (just 0.5% growth 3-day average) and yesterday was down to 98.8% comparing 3-day averages with Thursday the 16th. Last Friday had 74,987 reported cases, will it be more, less or the same today.

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pqfHauRl9M

So, in the lamest of developments, the football team we root for lost to a rival whose entire team, quite literally, had contracted SARS-CoV-2. I thought they were supposed to have crippling lung damage or something?

It varies from person to person.
Something like 54% of people with mild cases or unsymptomatic have some form of lunge damage.
The amount can greatly vary.  Like if your a pro athlete and lose 1-10% of your lunge capacity or funktion, it doesnt really ruin you.
However I suspect there are athletes who after getting covid19, it could destroy their careers.

Alot of sports have endurance aspects build in, and good lunges matters in such reguards.
But agian, its like rolling a dice. Sometimes you get lucky, others not.

Those American Anti-maskers are literally acting like inhuman animals.

It's California.  That fucked up state doesn't represent the other 49.

Everyone has varying degrees of lung damage, from none to severe 

As people can be reinfected every 3 months or so, its likely accumulated lung scarring will begin to take its toll on lung function in many people, some right away others after the 2nd, 3rd or 4th infection, of course if we are lucky mutations may make the virus less potent over the coming years