They built a bunch of overflow hospitals all over the US and all over the world. The vast majority of them have gone unused or have since been dismantled. There's even additional capacity for the US in the form of those hospital ships the Navy has which were used a grand total of once, in New York City, at the height of things there. Anyone who says "we are being overwhelmed" has no idea what they're talking about it.
The media is chimping out at this like crazy to the point of becoming obsessed, I've half a mind to cut them off entirely. The current situation is the same as it was at the start of outbreak with only a small upgrade to the older rules. People are complying easily and the people that tabloids (looking at Daily Mail in particular) are claiming are furious are only a small minority.
swprs.org
Their original paper was highly dismissive of "universal masking" as most people would understand it. Now they say "universal masking helps," e pur si muove.
Unless players are dropping dead in the sidelines, they can fuck off with this nonsense.
Make sure to watch fine print on loans if you take a gap semester. Some consider that immediate end of deferrment and no grace period for payments.
I know it sounds like that, but that particular example is a coincidence: I ordered McDonald's over Uber Eats before all this, and they had those exact stickers with those phrases.
So it wasn't new normal propaganda, but something just as bad: companies trying to tap into that relatable millennial humor.
Sad yet possibly true, after all the initial lockdowns kept getting extended by mere weeks from March till fucking June.
