Five reasons COVID's ass is grass

Why I'm now optimistic that this will be over sooner rather than later

In the U.S., about 2000 people continue to die every day of COVID-19. Case growth has dropped, but only to about the same level as the peak of the summer wave. Meanwhile, Texas’ governor has announced that he’s suspending the statewide mask mandate, threatening to spark another wave of infection. And variant forms of the virus, including the fast-spread…