Agree. Watch the case rates, if "they" allow true statistics to be known, an increase in deaths will soon follow after an uptick in cases, barring a cure.
your totals may be in the ballpark while the states numbers have very significant up movements (in the “free” states) and down movements in the “slave” ;-) states.
True, in a steady-state system. Here, increase the cases and deaths will lag but follow, so eventually both will rise for every state, and the entire nation. I look for governments to start faking the numbers if they reflect negatively on those in power. Or, on the other hand, to keep Trump from winning a second term.
Yeah, case numbers are very fungible.
Deaths too, though not as much.
Tough decisions.
But we’ve got to live with this virus for another year and a half.