"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

We had to resize the chart

Just a quick update to let you know that we spiked so much that we had to resize the chart.

This was before New Year’s Eve:

Yeah, I know.

This is today. We are around 170.800 new cases. In one day.

Well, shit

The death toll is stationary, hospitalizations are going up steadily but not spiking. Yet.

On the eleventh day of Christmas
my true love gave to me
170.837 new cases and a fucking partridge
in the damn pear tree.

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