Day 251: More Great Barrington

Brazil (at #3) has reached 5 million cases; #2 India is approaching 7 million, and at a pace that puts it in position to overtake the US eventually.

Governor Whitmer has been digging up Spanish Flu laws in an attempted end-run around last week's state supreme court decision striking down a 1945 law and her coronavirus restrictions along with it. PlagueBlog senses that this is not the right legal or temporal direction to be going in, and that the "burn your masks" lawyer will be back before their supreme court sooner rather than later.

AIER, after letting slip their involvement in the Great Barrington Declaration, has been reporting on the reaction to it, from scientists, the media, and the social media peanut gallery. Off-Guardian was not involved in the declaration, but assembles a lot of prior art of scientists and health care workers recommending against lockdowns.

Yesterday's weekly cities and towns data was the twenty-sixth such missive from the state. That's half a year, and the weekly reports only started in April. The coronavirus drama in Boston has actually been going on for 251 days since our first case, which is more than two-thirds of the year. Although the news just keeps on coming so does the COVID fatigue, so PlagueBlog will be reducing our publication schedule for the foreseeable future.

On to the data: while in recent weeks the Stop the Spread cities (with dotted borders) haven't been consistently ahead of other cities and large towns in case counts, this week you can see they're hotspots, along with Nantucket and the usual random smattering of small town outliers:

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