600 new positive tests today in New Mexico. 478 yesterday. One hospital in Santa Fe has 148 new patients this week. My brother in law was just admitted to the hospital today. He has been struggling with covid (again) for over a week. My sister and her daughter are feeling better, still have a cough. They got re-tested yesterday and were still positive, 2 weeks after the started feeling ill. This thing is not going away this year. (for an idea of why 600 is a large number for our state, the population of the whole state is less by almost 250,000 than the population of Houston,Texas).
I have decided I am going to continue to wear my mask when I go out. It is a simple thing and even though it is not 100% effective, it does help.