# AloneTogether
- 32.9 percent: How much America’s GDP plunged last quarter.
- Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert, who has been publicly dismissive about wearing a mask, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Karma.
- “There are certain fundamentals—the staples of what you need to do. One is universal wearing of masks.”—Dr. Anthony Fauci.
- 556: The total number of workers that United Air Lines will lay off at TIA and Orlando International Airport.
- 74.8 million: The number of U.S. airline passengers in May 2019. 7.9 million: The number of U.S. airline passengers in May 2020.
- “Equitable, fair and transparent.”—CDC Director Robert Redfield, on how vaccine allocation must be seen by the public.
- 3: Florida universities among the top 10 in the U.S. for the highest number of coronavirus cases this year. They are: 2-UCF (438 cases); 5-UF (217); and 7-USF (182). No. 1 is the University of Texas (449).
- This fall 59 percent of classes at USF will have some in-person component.
- Polk County has the highest positivity rate in the Tampa Bay region: approximately 12 percent.
- The new normal in the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg includes parents signing a waiver of liability. Back in the Philadelphia day of St. Timothy’s Catholic School and its Order of St. Joseph nuns, my parents never had to sign a waiver allowing the nuns to cuff around the wise guys who deserved it.
- Some counties have mask ordinances, some don’t. But no virus recognizes borders.
- 30 percent: How much firearms sales jumped from March to June.