US Cases: 8,802,099*
US Deaths: 219,374*
Worldwide Cases: 44,386,621*
Worldwide Deaths: 1,172,684*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
The White House can't get its messaging straight. I mean, try to contain your surprise, I guess. But just three days ago, Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, said that "We're not going to control the pandemic".
Now, just three days later, the White House declared victory:
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has listed “ending the COVID-19 pandemic” as one of the top achievements of President Donald Trump’s first term, in a stunning distortion of reality as the nation shatters infection records.The baffling claim came in a press release published Tuesday, that announced a new document highlighting the Trump administration’s strides to advance science and technology.According to the press release, the new document lauds the Trump administration’s defeat of the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that Trump “has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry, and government to understand, treat, and defeat the disease.”The false statement follows reporting last week that the United States broke records for the number of new coronavirus cases tallied in a single day and as the virus surges across a number of states while medical facilities bend under the weight of rising hospitalizations for COVID-19.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump famously said that once he was president, the country would be sick and tired of winning. At the time, I didn't understand that when he said "winning", he meant "having our collective ass handed to us".
In which case, he's right. We've had a LOT of "winning" in the past 4 years, and I'm definitely sick and tired of it.
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