Hospitalizations and infections are up in eastern Ontario in our 7th wave, I'm not sure about the rest of the province. Ottawa is getting high readings in their sewage viral count analysis. It's not clear that we're seeing statistically significant increases in deaths though.
The 7-day moving average of daily US deaths is stubbornly hovering in the low 300s as of yesterday, which annualizes to about 100,000 per year. If that were consistently trending down I could understand why it's not attracting more attention. I suppose there is something called "Covid fatigue", which is a bit lame imo. I wonder if soldiers in combat get bored with enemy gunfire and start to ignore it. That's probably unfair, but I said it anyway.
But it could very well be that the majority of people who are now dying failed to take the minimum precautions, like getting vaccinated. If that's the case, people's sympathy will only go so far, which is totally understandable. I hope someone in public health is continuing to analyze the data. But I'm cynical and I've read the Michael Lewis books, so it's more likely that authorities are cutting funding to those public agencies, to avoid having any useful data for which they might be called to account. But that assumes that people are paying enough attention to even call someone to account, which I doubt. I know people will always die of something, but the numbers still seem high to me.