Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of seventy-one. Sunrise is 6:59 AM and sunset 6:25 PM, for 11h 26m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 82.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand four hundred twenty-eighth day.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie, has its premiere.
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David Leonhardt writes of the coronavirus that only cancer and heart disease will kill more Americans this year than Covid:
Only cancer and heart disease will kill more Americans this year than Covid. Already, the virus has killed more than twice as many Americans as either strokes or Alzheimer’s disease, about four times as many as diabetes and more than eight times as many as either gun violence or vehicle accidents.
Most other rich countries have been much more successful in fighting the virus than the U.S. A chart is the simplest way to see this:
Outbreaks are again increasing in the U.S. The number of new cases per day has risen more than 25 percent since mid-September. “Covid-19 is spreading again across most of the U.S., hammering rural America and smaller cities and raising anxiety in New York,” Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The outbreak connected to the White House is responsible for about 30 known cases so far — more than the average daily number of new cases recently in all of Australia.
The virus is genuinely terrifying for thousands of people. In addition to the more than 200,000 deaths — and all of the Americans mourning those deaths — many other people have spent weeks battling fatigue, shortness of breath, cardiac problems and more.
Tim Walker reports Trump’s breathless White House return:
A still-contagious Donald Trump returned to the White House from Walter Reed military hospital on Monday evening, and immediately removed his mask for a photo op on the Truman balcony, where he appeared to be short of breath as he posed for cameras. In a campaign video shot moments later, however, the president insisted he was better following three days of hospital treatment for Covid-19 – and perhaps even “immune” to the disease.
Trump’s reported desperation to leave hospital and get back to campaigning while still in the throes of the illness is a sign of his willingness to sacrifice anyone – even those closest to him – to spare himself the humiliation of a one-term presidency, writes Julian Borger: “He has produced a toxic workplace to the point of potential lethality.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for Covid-19, she announced on Monday.
Another guest from the Rose Garden event for Amy Coney Barrett has also tested positive. Mega-church pastor Greg Laurie said in a Facebook post that his symptoms were so far “mild”.
Trump’s team and the wider world might have hoped the president would learn something from his personal experience of the virus, writes Francine Prose:
We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles; that our grief, fear and pain increases our sympathy for the grief, fear and pain of others. But again, Donald Trump seems to be ineducable, impervious to shame, guilt, or any sense of personal responsibility, unaffected by anything except vanity, selfishness and reckless self-regard.
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Belarus: Tens of thousands protest eight weeks after election: