Reply To: The “New Normal” for Shul During the Yamim Noraim

To test Syag’s claim that the media “are reporting lots of new ‘cases’ but stopped reporting new hospitalizations or deaths because those numbers aren’t quite scary enough,” I went to Google News and searched for “COVID hospitalizations.” I found articles from diverse sources with headlines like “Texas coronavirus hospitalizations surge 11% in a single day,” “Texas and Arizona keep setting coronavirus hospitalization records,”, “Coronavirus hospitalizations rising in parts of California,” “Alabama hits all-time high in COVID-19 hospitalizations,” “Tennessee’s COVID hospitalizations are high and increasing,” “Reported coronavirus hospitalizations soar to another new high as NC mulls next phase,” “Georgia’s COVID cases, hospitalizations on the rise as state reopens.” All these headlines are from the last 48 hours. I leave it up to the reader to do something similar for COVID deaths — I’m tired of typing.