Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come: 140,914 deaths

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Donald Trump tweeted that "The Mortality Rate for the China Virus in the U.S. is just about the LOWEST IN THE WORLD."

 Countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths

1. United States - 140,914 deaths
2. Brazil - 80,120 deaths
3. United Kingdom - 45,397 deaths
4. Mexico - 39,485 deaths
5. Italy - 35,058 deaths
6. France - 30,180 deaths
7. Spain - 28,422 deaths
8. India - 28,082 deaths
9. Iran - 14,634 deaths
10. Peru - 13,187 deaths

'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone'

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, 
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, 
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum 
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. 

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead 
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, 
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, 
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. 

He was my North, my South, my East and West, 
My working week and my Sunday rest, 
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; 
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. 

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; 
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; 
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; 
For nothing now can ever come to any good. 

W H Auden 

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Deaths/data 7/21/2020

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*NY Times,Bryan R Smith/Reuters

**Morgues/Refrigerator Trucks,Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times

***Funeral home, AP News 

**** New York’s Hart Island burials/coronavirus © REUTERS