An acceptable level of Covid to return to normal

as long as testing continues incidents of corona infection will be reported and folks will ask if it is safe to return to normal

I have never seen the US as adverse to risk taking as it is now and anything short of zero incidents will be cause for lawyers and protests to be outed.

but the turtle makes no progress unless it sticks its head out.

the CDC publishes a lot of data on the corona, much of which is subject to challenge based on conspiracy theory .

a CDC graph shows the weekly total of respiratory fatalities linked to the sum of pneumonia, flu, and corona deaths for the last 3 years, as a percentage of all deaths for the weeks reviewed.

the trend is very smooth varying with the seasons with the exception of a month in 2018 {viral outbreak} and the last 4 months corona. the death rate has approached normality last week about 4%, down from its peak at 26%.

As this is based on death rates, it eliminates a lot of discussion regards factual data or not.

Over the couple of weeks, CDC AND GOVT will have to turn attention to normal death rates away from numbers of tests, positives and hospitalization to be able to get to an achievable goal

I do not have an explanation for the increase in positives other than more testing occurring.

schools will open based on pneumonia, flu and Covid deaths being reduced to the seasonal norm