Four months ago BC was registering abt 20 covid cases a day. Three months ago, abt 50. Two months, 100. Last month, 200 cases. Today, FIVE HUNDRED & EIGHTY NINE cases. You don’t need a mathematician to estimate where we’ll be at Xmas unless we get our shit together. Come on.
Today You might not be able to imagine ringing in 2021 with thousands of covid cases a day in BC. In exactly the same way, September You might have thought 500 a day improbable. And July You thought 100 a day unlikely. All those guys were wrong
When Victoria state in Australia recorded the same new-covid-cases/population rate that BC experienced today, it went into a 100-day hard lockdown to get it under control. So THANKS A LOT everyone who got us to this point too
It’s tempting to look at today’s spike to 589 cases as somehow unexpected or inconsistent with BC’s long-term trend. Completely untrue. The growth in cases has been almost exactly the same since early summer: a one-month doubling rate. That’s exponential growth, folks
And, as I watch CTV news, how is it even conceivable that people think an indoor spin class is sensible right now? Seriously folks
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