I'm replying to this on the 18th and the numbers were around 55K yesterday so...

I've got the weird disconnect of being in a relatively low covid area, and most of my friends are online and sensible, so aside from a few cases early in 2020, no-one I know has actually had it. It feels weirdly like everything is fine and everything is disastrous all at once. It must be much more worrying for you living in a place that has big spikes.