[cba123]

Sorry.

Over 24,000 (new) coronavirus cases.

New cases.

Just yesterday.

[cyclotic]

The number of new cases is somewhat irrelevant.

50,000 people probably chipped a tooth yesterday too. So what.

What’s relevant is not really being reported.

How many hospitalizations yesterday?
How many released?
How many are sick but not hospitalized?

Minor cases of any disease are not really important.

[AndyJackson]

24,000 new cases is very relevant because it tells us that if we just go back to the way things were, this will explode in two weeks.

Two weeks of tenfold increases means we would have 2.4 M new cases. Another week and we have 24 M cases. Now obviously at some point here you have infected very susceptible person and it stops. But you have also killed every vulnerable person.

And no, right now were are nowhere close to "herd immunity" which requires infecting at least 60% of the US population and probably more like 80-90%.

And no, totalitarian lockdown plays into the hands of the CHICOMS. Doing nothing plays into the hands of the blue state totalitarians. There is a reasoned middle.