want to put the stats up on the screen the latest average of new cases is more than 129,000 new cases a day that is not more than 700% from the beginning of july assuming trends of the spread of the virus in a current level of vaccination, how high could this wave get, how many new cases could we be seeing a day? we can t really predict that all we can say is that this is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peeked out i would be surprised if we don t cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks, that is heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be back in that space again, that was january and february that should not be august but here we are with delta variant which is so contagious in the heart breaking situation were 9 million people are on vaccinated who are sitting ducks for this virus and were in a world of hurt and it s a critical juncture and we gotta