Meh, not as bad as the 420k deaths in the US.

Luke Letlow, GOP congressman-elect from Louisiana, dies of covid-19

Oxford vaccine approved in the UK:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-30/uk-approves-oxford-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine/13022336

Another tracker, this one for number of vaccines applied
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=latest&region=World

USA leads in absolute numbers, 2.13 million doses administered (0.64% of population)
Isreal leads in percentage of population 7.44% (644K doses administered)

(This is counted as a single dose, and does not measure the number of people vaccinated (which usually
requires two doses).

Maybe in a month we can see some effect of herd immunity in Israel. Atm their cases and deaths are rising.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/

What a month or two can do.... USA past 20m (20,2m) now.

2 months ago, 90k was shockingly alot.
Now everyday US has 200-250k.

Back at start of nov, US was at 230k deaths due to covid.
Now its over 351k.

120,000+ people over 2 months.

Young people can truly be biological hazards:

The woman in the background is shouting something like "just fucking intubate me, then":

Both are from end of the year parties here in Brazil.

Year end update. The numbers are pretty wobbly with the holidays. Also today a lot lower numbers due to it being Januari 1st.

In total 4.16 million new cases were reported last week (down from 4.20 million) for a total of 84,355,259 cases in 2019
Another 77,537 deaths were reported as well (up from 76,652) for a total of 1,834,484 Covid-19 deaths in 2019

Europe and the USA have big dips around Christmas and were on the way back up until today's low reporting


The continents

North America reported 1.57 million new cases (up from 1.48 million) and 24,369 more deaths (up from 23,453)
Europe reported 1.45 million new cases (down from 1.48 million) and 31,356 more deaths (exact same as last week)
Asia reported 543K new cases (down from 619K) and 9,009 more deaths (down from 9,916)
South America reported 438K new cases (down from 468K) and 8,624 more deaths (up from 8,216)
Africa reported 162K new cases (up from 155K) and 4,172 more deaths (up from 3,645)
Oceania reported 567 new cases (586 last week) and 7 deaths


Corners of the world

USA reported 1.41 million new cases (up from 1.32 million) and 18,182 more deaths (up from 17,418)
Brazil reported 252K new cases (down from 285K) and 4,926 more deaths (up from 4,828)
India reported 134K new cases (down from 165K) and 1,826 more deaths (down from 2,208)
South Africa reported 90.5K new cases (up from 81.8K) and 2,611 more deaths (up from 1,991)

Canada reported 47.5K new cases (up from 39.9K) and 887 deaths (679 last week)
Iran reported 42.2K new cases (down from 43.6K) and 897 deaths (1,167 last week)
Japan reported 24.1K new cases (up from 19.8K) and 355 deaths (322 last week)
South Korea reported 7.00K new cases (down from 7.25K) and 144 deaths (128 last week)
Australia reported 154 new cases (down from 179) and 1 death

Europe in detail

The UK and Ireland keep rising quickly.
South Africa seems to be in trouble as well.

Back in the earlier 2000's, they did a study that estimated roughly 25,000 pr year, died in the USA due to sugary drinks.
Yes people eat/drink themselves into early deaths.

The thing is, you have choice in the matter of food.

You can choose to not eat takeout, not eat cake, candy, drink soft drinks (go with water instead) ect. Responsibility rests on your own shoulders.
You cannot choose to "avoid corona" if your forced to work, or go out to buy groceries ect.  Responsibility rests on others shoulders (to not infect others).

Also Republicans, wouldnt want to limit the food instrustry or regulate it too much would it?
Thats what those pesky european communists do!

Anyways two wrongs dont make a right.

Coronavirus has "offically" killed 360k in less than a year in the USA.
(real number is likely much higher)

So why not fight both?

Shutdowns/facemasks/vaccines + heavy regulation of the food instrustry, and limit its allowed sugar addatives, artifical tastes/sweeteners ect.
And save even more lives?


No one is saying, that you should allow one bad thing, because another bad thing is happending.
The smart move, is to do something against both.

if you adopted all the rules & regulations the EU has with foods, you could also more easily sell to european markets.
As a starting point, if you wanted to go beyound that, you could as well ofc.

The problem is, finding a politican that actually wants to tackle such issues.


*edit:

basically your argument that you should allow a virus free roam to kill many more than it currently does, because... other things also kill people... is a odd way to argue against doing something vs the corona virus (or belittle its impact).

For comparison sake,
The virus has now (officially) killed more people than the Armenian genocide, yet still far short of the Holocaust. Humans are still the worst.

Doesn't really matter. A virus is way easier to combat than established bad habits. You could say the same about smoking and drinking, but it's moot to talk about it. It's only logical to tackle the easier to solve problem first or maybe do both at the same time? It's not like people have stopped caring about other issues during the pandemic.