Months ago, the notion of the United States recording more than 100,000 coronavirus infections in a single day seemed inconceivable. But surging caseloads in nearly every state pushed the tally to a record 104,004 new infections on Wednesday — and it wasn’t even the biggest news story.Though I swear we are all goldfish. "Months ago" there were daily cases in the 70000s. 100,000 would have been high, but hardly inconceivable.