US Cases: 1,061,101
US Deaths: 57,266
Worldwide Cases: 3,249,667
Worldwide Deaths: 232,936
It appears that while the death rate in the U.S. is no longer increasing, it's not really decreasing, either. Today the number of deaths jumped by more than 2,000, just like it did yesterday, and the day before. So naturally, Trump has decided to declare victory:
Trump today: "Our death totals, our numbers, per million people, are really very, very strong. We're very proud of the job we've done." Via CSPAN pic.twitter.com/gOi7DIJIQX— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 30, 2020
And if that's not sufficiently embarrassing/enraging, Trump has decided that he has more important things to do than worry about some silly pandemic:
President Donald Trump says he is planning to travel to Arizona next week and is looking forward to resuming campaign rallies after spending more than a month mostly cooped up at the White House because of the coronavirus.
Trump says he is looking forward to his Arizona trip next week and also hopes to visit Ohio soon despite the fact that much of the nation remains on some sort of lockdown as the virus continues to spread.
He says: “We’re going to start to move around and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other.”
Of course, no summary of today's events would be complete without mentioning that terrorists armed white citizens concerned about Michigan's stay-at-home order stormed occupied hung out at the state capitol:
Guns are permitted inside the Michigan capitol though, oddly, protest signs are not.
“These folks are a small minority of people who are vocally opposed the governor’s stay at home executive order,” Rosie Jones, a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich (D), told TPM. “Although, their message is muddled with inflammatory language like ‘tyrants get your rope’ and images of swastikas and confederate flags.”It seems that law enforcement removed all of the protestors from the premises. Does anyone want to guess what would have happened to the protesters if they had all been black?
Or Muslim?
How likely do you think it is that the Cult of Trump would have supported this kind of stupidity from a group like that?
No personal news today, but I just wanted to make an observation that Trump and the Republicans seem to have pretty clearly given up at this point. They can see that their efforts to address the pandemic are failing, and they refuse to take the hard steps necessary to actually address it (read: conduct 2 million tests per day rather than 200,000, and insist on closing down until that's a reality). So they've decided just to claim victory and go on with business as usual, and ignore the death and damage to the economy.
I also have a prediction. Today, according to the COVID Tracking Project, the number of coronavirus deaths stands at 57,266.
I predict that in one month, on May 31, that number has grown to more than 150,000. I'll be delighted if I'm wrong.
Unfortunately, I doubt that I will be.
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