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Most of us are blissfully ignorant of the US national death rate.

7,452 people in the US die each day - about 1 every 12 seconds.

WaPo:

Problems with a government-created coronavirus test have limited the United States’ capacity to rapidly increase testing, just as the outbreak has entered a worrisome new phase in countries worldwide. Experts are increasingly concerned that the small number of U.S. cases may be a reflection of limited testing, not of the virus’s spread.

While South Korea has run more than 35,000 coronavirus tests, the United States has tested only 426 people, not including people who returned on evacuation flights. Only about a dozen state and local laboratories can now run tests outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta because the CDC kits sent out nationwide earlier this month included a faulty component.

U.S. guidelines recommend testing for a very narrow group of people — those who display respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled to China or had close contact with an infected person.

We all know good-n-goddamned well that Cult45 will lie to us about how people died - or just conveniently not report the deaths at all, either by ignorance or incompetence.

Meanwhile, it's being suggested that we all ditch the customs of shaking hands, or kissing and hugging each other in greeting.

A big shift in the cultural paradigm is in progress, and appears to be accelerating.