Nebraska has a test positivity rate of 20% - indicator for adequate testing is 5% or less - and over the past 2 weeks, cases have gone up by 24%, hospitalizations by 41%, and deaths by 105% (NYTimes). https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1321264515313475586

The good news is that this is outdoors. The bad news is the close-packed crowed, the lack of masks, the extended time period, and the fact that 1/3 of the 64,000 cases in Nebraska thus far have been here, in Douglas County.

It's an exercise of vast carelessness and bravado, shot through with an utter lack of compassion.

Douglas County has 2,214 staffed hospital beds and 317 ICU beds. According to this article h/t @emlitofnote, 79% of the metro area hospital system ICUs are already full: https://twitter.com/emlitofnote/status/1321316458639486976?s=20

In other words,