COVID19 Update - Day 240

US Tests: 134,391,770*

US Cases: 9,541,148*

US Deaths: 226,955*

Worldwide Cases: 48,580,403*

Worldwide Deaths: 1,231,558*

* - Numbers are a lower bound.  True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration

While most everyone's attention is focused on the foregone conclusion of Biden ultimately securing an electoral college win over Trump, very little attention has been paid to the fact that, for the second day in a row, the U.S. set a record for number of new #TrumpVirus cases, ringing in today with a staggering 116,155.

As we enter a powerful 'third wave' of the pandemic, and with a TOTAL lack of national leadership (if you thought Trump was phoning it in before, he should be COMPLETELY useless as a lame duck), it's not inconceivable that we might see that number swell to 200,000 new cases a day (or more) by January 5, when the state of Georgia will hold not one, but two runoff elections for their two Senate seats.  Making things all the more interesting is the fact that Democrats probably need to win both of them in order to take control of the Senate, and in so doing, have any real chance of enacting President Biden's agenda.

So I have a modest proposal.  The Democratic candidates in these runoff elections --- Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock --- and the national Democratic party, need to run ads for the next 9 weeks which say the following:

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate a week before the election without passing emergency stimulus legislation.  Since then, thousands of Americans have lost their jobs, and lines at food shelves keep growing --- even as over 100,000 more Americans catch COVID every day.

Mitch McConnell is playing politics with American lives, but you can stop him.  Send Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to the Senate, to put a new leader in charge of the Senate, so that America can get back to the work of helping Americans.

Or something like that.

It would appear that voters in Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine and North Carolina all think it's just fine that McConnell didn't even try to pass a stimulus bill before the election.  But it seems to me that with the crisis poised to reach frightening proportions, this message might resonate with a divided Georgia electorate.