if you (or someone you know!) need some healthy scaremongering

So I didn’t get my crap together in time enough over the past few weeks to get you guys a Q&A today, BUT I kiiiiinda figure it can’t hurt to re-up some of the ghastliest stories about COVID that I’ve essentially internalized over the past year because, guys, it’s bad. This is the winter wave we saw coming, except uh as it turns out we never got it quite…