From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):     DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30       3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14        4142     15512        1151        189       712                  Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar     2        1989     9490        1726       110      194 April   6          906     11787         4211       631       37 May    4         853     13667         3025     3786      59   June   1         287    10637         2346      3205       95  July   7          251      8440        1595       

The news shock of the day is that   all three vigilantes were judged guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, in varying degrees .  Sentencing to come later.    Georgia has become a model transition state for Black Lives Mattering and Democracy.   This will be a peaceful Thanksgiving tomorrow. Yesterday I advocated the use of home tests to determine whether you have COVID-19 or not to make yourself safe for your Thanksgiving family gathering.  From the  New York Times  this morning: That approach is possible in other countries. In Britain, pharmacies offer free packs of seven tests that people can take at home. In Germany, rapid tests are also widely available and mostly free. In this country, the situation is different, largely because the F.D.A. has been   slow to approve the tests . The rapid tests — also known as antigen tests — are designed to tell whether you are infectious. That’s why they are such a powerful public-health tool. They can prevent somebody with the virus from spreading