There have been over 231,000 covid-19 deaths in the United States
There have been over 9.2 million covid-19 cases in the United States
My county has had 34k cases and 352 deaths
Cases and deaths are surging everywhere. Doctors say it will get worse over the winter because people will be forced indoors because of the weather.
Some political notes:
A couple days ago outside of Austin, a caravan of trump supporters surrounded a Biden tour bus. The reports say the caravan forced it off the road, damaged a staffer’s car, and the Biden campaign canceled a couple events for security reasons.
I watched some of the videos. I didn’t see the bus run off the road, but I did see a truck ram into a car that matches pictures of the staffer’s damaged car.
Trump posted a video of the caravan following the bus and said “I love Texas!”
He encouraged this behavior. It’s such weird behavior! What is the point of following a tour bus and having dozens of vehicles surround it? What’s the point? It’s just weird. That doesn’t happen in normal elections. And I’m concerned that he encourages this kind of thing, which means crazy people will keep behaving this way, and maybe become more violent.
His supporters would counter and say that democratic protestors are violent. To me it feels different. Protesting is a historical thing that happens all the time. Surrounding a bus on the highway? What is that? Also, Biden doesn’t encourage protestors to be violent or tweet videos of them and say “I love this!”
Election day is on the 3rd. Two days from now. Hard to believe it’s already here. It’s been such a long four years. It feels like so much is at stake.
Trump’s campaign keeps waging court battles to prevent states from counting absentee votes after the 3rd, even though that has always been regular practice. There are even some republicans in Houston trying to throw out over 100k votes that people cast via drive-thru because of the virus. They’re trying to invalidate the drive-thru process of voting. It’s so blatant. Drives me insane.
So we will see what happens on the 3rd. Is all of this just part of election drama, or is something dramatic going to happen on the 3rd? Will it all just transpire as normal, and we’ll find out all this arguing was just for media buzz and ratings? I guess we’ll see.
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