US Cases: 5,884,053*
US Deaths: 173,754*
Worldwide Cases: 24,649,431*
Worldwide Deaths: 835,793*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
I'm running on fumes tonight, so I'm just going to point you to Josh Kovensky's article about how --- astoundingly --- Trump is hoping to use his epic failure in responding to the pandemic to his benefit:
It is no small irony that Trump is trying to turn the pandemic to his political benefit, having epically downplayed the virus and spectacularly bungled the initial and the ongoing responses. Despite, or maybe because of, the death of more than 180,000 Americans, Trump still seems determined to turn the pandemic to his political advantage.But there is a consistency to the Trump response both initially and now: it is focused on his political needs, not the exigencies of public health, science, or the sick and dying.The steps Trump has taken fit a pattern in which through bluster and misconduct, the President and his allies are turning tools meant to fight the disease into a way of fighting the PR problem of the disease, ensuring that there appear to be fewer cases than there are while raising fears about a vaccine being delivered before it’s ready.
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