4/3/21: The vaccination program for COVID-19 is picking up momentum; but Americans spent last month dying in large numbers, sometimes in bursts of gunfire (see: 3/22/21 and 3/23/21), sometimes sick with coronavirus in hospital beds.
Meanwhile, Rep. Lauren Boebert, who loves guns and thinks everyone should carry one every day, has a plan to save us all from tyranny.
She is trying to get Congress
to pass a law to stop the Biden administration from instituting a mask mandate
on all federal properties.
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| No fun. That is true. |
Deaths from COVID-19 in March:
3/1: 1,282
3/2: 2,124
3/3: 1,960
3/4: 1,835
3/5: 2,198
3/6: 1,673
3/7: 865
3/8: 861
3/9: 1,382
3/10: 1,530
3/11: 1,538
3/12: 1,387
3/13: 1,040
3/14: 586
3/15: 706
3/16: 995
3/17: 1,118
3/18: 1,521
3/19: 1,505
3/20: 768
3/21: 442
3/22: 971
3/23: 786
3/24: 1,290
3/25: 1,403
3/26: 1,283
3/27: 871
3/28: 560
3/29: 592
3/30: 807
3/31: 1,041
The U.S. death toll for March
from coronavirus: 36,920.
POSTSCRIPT: Maybe socialized medicine isn’t such a bad idea. A recent article in The New York Times notes that Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan billed at least sixteen patients more than $3,000 each, for a coronavirus test. Ana Roa provided a copy of her bill to reporters, and admitted, “It was shocking to see a number like that, when I’ve gotten tested before for about $135.”
The cost of a routine nasal swab at Lenox Hill (apparently requiring a gold swab) for Roa: $3,358.
Or: Nearly 25 times as much as for her testing previously.
The Times notes other examples of price-gouging, including, the case of a family which “accrued $39,314 in charges for 12 tests this winter, all taken to fulfill requirements for returning to work or school.”
(This blogger and his wife both had nasal swab tests recently
at a nearby Urgent Care. Cost: $102 each.)
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