Local COVID-19 updates

( Wall-o-text )

Well, this ain't good. Deaths, cases and hospitalizations all up compared to yesterday; even worse, the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are also all up compared to yesterday. Compared to last week, at least, most of those averages are down slightly, so we're still making slow progress. Compared to last year, on the other hand, things are still far, far worse.

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 21 active and 3,591 cumulative cases as of June 23. In the most recent "newsflash style update" at 7PM on December 21, 2021, the town reported 1538 cumulative cases with 89 individuals in isolation, 1417 recovered and 32 fatalities.

The obvious topic for today

Today's huge political story, of course, is that the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade, ruling 5 to 4 in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that the United States Constitution does not "confer the right to an abortion" (and ruling 6-3 that the Mississippi state law being challenged was in fact constitutional).

There's not a whole lot for me to add right now, save perhaps that I both vehemently disagree with the result and greatly fear that this Supreme Court is both (a) corrupt and (b) not going to stop with abortion. And I'm not at all surprised that my Twitter, Farcebook, Discord, etc. feeds are basically aflame with anger at the decision. One thing I have seen that I didn't expect, though, was just how much of an outcry against Dobbs I'm seeing on LinkedIn. That's usually almost completely apolitical. However, there are a lot of professionals and business leaders who are crying foul. I'm (slightly) more hopeful that the Christian Dominionists and White Nationalists will find their victory Pyrrhic.