Yesterday over 70,000 covid tests in America came back positive.

That's really bad. But it's worse than you think.

The world freaked out when there were 60,000 COVID-19 cases total. In the whole world. We're getting more than that every day.

But it's worse than you think.

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By now you all know it takes about two weeks for symptoms to appear. No one in America even gets a test until at least two weeks after they've been infected. So today's numbers are a way lagging indicator. They've been spreading the virus for weeks before they were tested.

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But it's worse than that.

It takes 5 - 10 days in America for the test results to come back. The people who had positive tests yesterday were tested about a week ago.

They were infected about THREE weeks ago.

The numbers you see today are three weeks late.

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June 20 was three weeks ago. There were 33,000 positive tests reported on June 20. There were 71,000 positive tests reported today. The number of positive tests more than doubled in those three weeks.

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At that rate, 3 weeks from now--Aug 1--will have around 150,000 positive tests. On that day alone.

Remember, yesterday's 71,000 positive tests were for people who were infected around June 20.

The 150,000 positive tests for Aug 1 are people who are already infected. Today.

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Even if we shut down the whole country right this second, the next three weeks are already set. We can't stop it.

The 150,000 tests on Aug 1 are for that day alone. Over the next three weeks there will likely be an average of about 80,000-100,000 new cases per day.

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That means an additional two million cases in America by August 1.

And we can't stop it.

And all those people will be infecting more people every damn day until they're moved into quarantine.

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