It’s not obvious from the media coverage, but the coronavirus numbers are getting better. It’s no surprise. We could have predicted before Thanksgiving that the coronavirus winter would look like a three-humped camel. And if new variants do not blast us in the coming weeks, we can expect that maybe we are on a long, final downslope out of this virus.

Here’s the daily number of cases in the United States. That big mountain in recent months is the three-humped camel, and we shouldn’t be at all surprised if daily cases continue to plummet.