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All righty. Well, I hope that you had yourself a mildly relaxed weekend.

We're going to get to all the news. There's a lot happening out there from people defending their houses with guns to the president dropping in the polls and all of the cultural wars and all that. I want to to start with obviously the big news of the day, continues to be the spike that we are seeing in many states, really across the country. I think virtually all states, except for a couple, have seen increases in cases in COVID-19. That, of course, is not a major shock. As you continue to release people back into public, you are going to see more cases. The question is, does it overwhelm the hospital systems? One of the big questions has been whether the lockdowns are actually that effective because we saw increasing levels of death in places like New York City, even after the lockdown. Also, one of the things that we saw is that when people get alarmed, they go back in their house without you actually having to tell them to go back into their house. One of the things that seems to be happening right now is that in states that are very hot where there's a lot of air conditioning being used, the rates are going up. And that's because people are going away from the public places where they were gathering, you know, outdoors, and they are going back inside and staying inside. So you're seeing upticks in places like California and Texas and Arizona. And the only common thread there is not a thread of policy.

It is a thread that has inside and staying inside. So you're seeing upticks in places like California and Texas and

Arizona. And the only common thread there is not a thread of policy. It is a thread that has more to do with the weather. If it gets really hot, you go inside, inside with a lot of other people, they're in close proximity with those people, and it's easier to get infected. Now, one of the, one of the things that we are seeing, and we really have not seen a major uptick in death. And that's been quite mysterious for a lot of folks.

The death numbers over the weekend continued to be pretty low.

I mean, meaning that the death numbers on Sunday across the nation were actually the lowest that

they had been since March, which is pretty shocking, considering that we're supposedly

experiencing this massive spike in the number of deaths across the United States. One of the reasons

for that is because the age of people who are being infected is now extremely low, like a lot lower

than it was originally. Before it was mainly older people being sent back into nursing homes.

And basically it was killing everybody off in that first wave. As I've said before,

maybe the only thing that you can do here is protect the nursing homes and wear masks and socially distance. And that's pretty much it. Those are all the things. There's not another thing that you can do to prevent this thing from spreading. And once you have gone outside and you've been with other people, well, then there's going to be a certain number of infections. But there's some good news here. I mean, if the number of infections is

going up and the rate of death is going down, that means the overall infection fatality rate

is a lot lower than originally was supposed. Again, the CDC now estimates that 0.26% of people

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