State of Affairs: August 16, 2021

As a nation, we aren’t in the worst of the worst. The South is a different story, though.

Cases continue to exponentially increase in the United States, which seems to be driving the North American trend far more than Canada or Mexico. We continue to keep an eye on Israel and the UK as it’s likely an indicator of what is to come in the United States.

In the States, Louisiana (126 per 100,000), Mississippi (110 per 100,000) and Florida (101 p…