Granted, I haven’t read this entire thread, but I haven’t seen anyone in the media using the available data to explain how bad this is really getting. The mortality rate lags the infection rate by about a month and is roughly 2% of the infection rate, so what we can say with some degree of certainty is that the death rate in mid-December will be around 3,000 people every day. Looking at the infection rate trending to 200K per day by the end of this month puts the death rate at 4,000 people a day at the end of the year, and that’s assuming that we have a limitless capacity to treat the infected, so it’s a conservative estimate.
By the time Donald Trump leaves office, over 400,000 people will have died in the United States, with or without a vaccine available… Yeah, I’d say it’s poised to get much worse.