Yeah, I’d like to stop writing these.  But yesterday we had 77,000 cases, so no dice.

Let’s talk about something fun instead.

Last night, we played the first playtest of Kevin’s fork of Swords of the Serpentine called SHAAARK.  Kevin is addicted to these super terrible shark movies, and built a cinematic one-shot RPG experience so we could all enjoy super terrible shark movies.  He designing it in public over on FB, if you want to follow along.

For everyone’s entertainment, I did tweet out the entire session.  (Warning, possible bad words, sharks, and dismemberment by shark.)  The character creation is delightful and the game played well, but it was the first live playtest.  Enormous fun was had, people were eaten, we blew up a zombie shark, there were jokes.

And hey, for a first playtest, a completely functional game from beginning to end is a huge win.

Tonight, we’re going to go back into Avernus, which is ranged competency porn all the time until we encounter, say, a corner.  Then we’re going to get torn to shreds. And tomorrow, we’ll play a session of our on-again, off-again Dragonheist game where no doubt we will get in trouble and have to fight our way out.

The savior of the pandemic: gaming.  And when we get tired of RPG gaming with the intense zoom fatigue, we then have video gaming.

Everything else in the world is terrible, so I’ll leave this as a short post.  Let’s go to the big board of stats and data!  How are we doing with our friend, COVID-19?

Stats:

  • 43,351,945 total test results.
  • 3,593,832 positive results.  By the way, the population of the United States is 328.2 million, so that’s 1%  of the total population.  While 1% might seem like a teeny weeny number, that’s absolutely enormous.  And that only counts the people who have been tested!
  • 140,659 confirmed dead.  This is picking up speed again.
  • 76,237 cases in MD with 3,450 dead
  • 1 in 109 people have it in Howard County

Goddamnit Maryland People.  This week the number of cases started to climb again.  Are people not wearing their masks?  What is wrong with you Maryland people.

Yeah, so, that’s a huge jump in case load and the dead.  The case load likely much larger than that.  We simply ran out of tests and now there is an 8-10 day wait for a result.  Which, well, by time it comes back, you might be dead.  Good luck with that.