As the United States reopens, virus outbreak worsens globally

While President Trump and his allies have taken a victory lap over the country's increase in employment nationwide in May, another number also saw a shocking jump.

Today, it was reported by the World Health Organization that the number of new daily COVID-19 cases hit a high on Sunday. More than 100,000 new cases have been reported on nine of the last ten days said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press briefing held today.

"Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported - the most in a single day so far," he said, noting that three-quarters of the cases came from the Americas and South Asia.

Unsurprisingly enough the two countries contributing the most to the new increase in cases are Brazil and wait for it - The United States!

Honestly, I feel like this shouldn't have come as a shock to people but I'm sure it will. This is a pandemic, it's not like cleaning your room, you can't just hide your junk under the bed and hope it disappears - which is what leadership in the United States is doing.

Just a month ago we had a violent mob of Karens demanding to speak with every state's manager to open up their favorite TJ Maxx and now they got what they wanted, everyone's just pretending that the pandemic was some made-up virus.

So far, there have been about 7 million people affected by the coronavirus worldwide, according to the New York Times. As of today, there have been about 400,000 deaths related to the virus with more than a quarter of them coming from the United States.

We're going to keep brushing this off and making it seem like this isn't doing numbers compared to the common cold but if we keep taking this route the pandemic will be poised for a comeback next fall and I think it will be even worse.

But what do you think?

-Alex

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