PRESENTING AS PERCENTAGES: Are you a 60-percenter? No, that is not a gang member … or maybe it is. It’s the exposure percentage science now deems necessary to indicate ’rona is on the run, at least in a herd immunity sense. More exactly, the percentage is the new, rather sudden gold standard of overall COVIDity exposure, based on the number of Americans who have had microbial intermingling with the deadly bug. And that 60 percent exposure rate could be what frees us.
As to what is happening to the infamous infection curve, I’m gathering the whole recovery syndrome is getting…
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