Democrats and the media grow increasingly rabid about new anti-COVID measures, even though Americans are adults.

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We have to panic. It's very important that we panic. The headlines today betray nothing

but panic. Panic, panic everywhere. Okay, here is the thing. There's not really a great reason

to panic. So the headline over at Drudge Report, which has basically just become the Huffington

Post at this point, giant headlines is peak COVID now.

Peak COVID now.

Okay, is it really peak COVID now?

Because when I think of peak COVID, I think how many people are dying of COVID, right?

This is one of the things that has driven me nuts for the past several months.

Case counts don't matter.

Hospitalizations and deaths matter.

Even if hospitalizations get disconnected from deaths, hospitalizations don't matter. Hospitalizations and deaths matter. Even if hospitalizations get

disconnected from deaths, hospitalizations don't matter as much as deaths do. Okay, so it used to be that

case counts were really, really closely tied to death rate. Now, thanks to the vaccine,

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