In our state, so far, the average age of death from covid has been 79 years old. 68% of fatalities have been among residents of nursing homes, i.e., people who were already sick from other things, who may have died a little sooner from covid than they would have otherwise, but were on their way out soon, anyway. So far, a total of ~6K people in our state have died from covid, out of a population of ~12MM. That's .05%. Moving forward, if we did a better job protecting vulnerable, sick, older people in nursing homes, wonder how bad it would be if we stopped social distancing altogether and just let the disease run through the population of healthy people, until it burned out and went away on its own? How many would die? 5X more? 10X more than have died already? I really don't know the answer to that question, but I think we may learn what it is in the coming weeks and months. To put the nationwide total of 120K deaths from covid into perspective, in normal years, usually around 650K people die from heart disease alone. Isn't it kind of amazing that Americans seem to just brush that off? If the media were reporting on deaths from heart disease 24 hours/day, 7-days/week, like they are for covid, Americans would, rightfully, be freaking out about heart disease too. I'd be all about social distancing, testing, contact tracing, quarantining, etc., if it seemed like a majority of people in our community were on board with that, but the reality is that they are not. This afternoon, I stopped by a local bar to pick up a six pack and some take-out wings to add to our Father's Day family dinner. As I walked in the front door of the bar, I slipped on my mask, thinking that it was required, but was then pretty surprised to see, for the first time since March, a bar full of customers, with no empty seats. Neither the bartender nor any of the guests were wearing masks. Apparently, our county went Green on Friday. I had totally forgotten about that. I was the only person in the bar wearing a mask. Since I don't feel sick, it seemed pretty pointless, but I kept it on anyway.