Covid-2019 - 2020-09-05

New cases in France and Spain are at new highs, a true second wave after the catastrophe in March. But as in the US sunbelt flare-up, there are few deaths, so the case fatality rate has been cut in half. This is being understood now as a "casedemic," a surge of cases, not deaths, suggesting that the first wave either killed or immunized the susceptible population, leaving the current class of infected persons carriers of the virus, but not sufferers of the disease. "Herd immunity" is a politically toxic term, but something like that seems to be happening.