Jan 142022
New infections of Xi’s Disease are shooting upwards like a Falcon 9. This trend has been going on for right at about a month. It kinda-sorta looks like *maybe* the curve is starting to bend *slightly* in the direction of flattening, but unless it does so soon, the CDC will have to start digging up dead folks and importing foreigners to keep these numbers up. Soon there will be a million confirmed cases a day, and quite possibly more than that. At some point there won’t be more people to infect.
But actual deaths remain vaguely consistent, at ~1500 per day: