April 7th
Cases: 1,349,784; Deaths: 74,820
Small towns are shaded places, and weird stuff grows weirder when in the shade. Conspiracy theories, those bedside stories for the marginalised, are endemic in small towns, and when it comes to plagues and pandemics the small town has seen it all before. This is not its first rodeo and that sense of we have been here before and despite whatever hardships we will be here tomorrow is the essence of a small town…clannish, phlegmatic, doughty and hard to impress.