US figures didn't just go up last week. They actually accelerated.
So I doubt what we saw was a peak.
Sunday is the low day in nearly every week, so I expect the US will crack 50k new cases in the next four or five days. Then, hopefully in the week after, mask ordinances and suchlike will have an effect.
The coronavirus met the first amendment and found it very cosy.
Turns out the harm principle works better during pandemics.
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." - John Stuart Mill
You can assemble. But not if you spread the virus. There's the necessary abridgement to individual "rights". Common goods and protections.
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