The US case counts are meaningless now. People have at home tests and people with Omicron don’t even waste at athome test on that... they just assume they Omicron.
Cases could be 4X-5X the “official” number.
Last Time Deaths were 2,000/day (Sept 2021) Cases were only 170K/day.
Assume 1/2 of January 2022 are “official”, Omicron is 1/10 as deadly as Delta.
When Brandon sends everyone Kits, official cases will drop like a rock. Even the Democrats are through with the pandemic... The rank and file Democrats just don’t know it, yet.
Maybe your neck of the woods is different from mine: In mine, while case surges get plenty of reporting early on, it’s the hospitalizations that really drive the reporting when they go high.