The Johnnies map is down, I don't know if maybe they got a defective map from Trump, but for most people the daily counter has little relevance for now. Trump, Dr. Fauci, and the task force see the deadhead sticker on the Cadillac up ahead: 100,000-240,000. That's the finish line. If the Caddy runs its course and only 100,000 are killed on the way then at least right now most living Americans would give them the checkered flag. Maybe approval will go down as 96,000 or so are unable to take the pollster's calls because they are dead.
Trump, Fauci, et also want to put a little voice inside our heads: Trump's previous lies? Trump's previous inaction? "Don't look back, you can never look back." How many deaths would be projected had Trump put his "strict guidelines" into effect weeks earlier, when he should have. Now, now! There you go again. No looking back! It's moot, Dr. Fauci has said--Forward!--thus enabling Trump's lies, see below, thus holding Trump unaccountable:
Mr. Trump, who spent weeks downplaying the threat of the virus — and who has retreated from his recent suggestion that social distancing could be scaled back in mid-April — congratulated himself for projections showing that public health measures may dramatically limit the national death toll.
“What would have happened if we did nothing? Because there was a group that said, ‘Let’s just ride it out,’” Mr. Trump said, without saying what “group” he was referring to.
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Mr. Trump said that as many as 2.2 million people “would have died if we did nothing, if we just carried on with our life.”
By comparison, he said, a potential death toll of 100,000 “is a very low number.”
Asked how current casualty estimates might differ had Mr. Trump called for social distancing measures weeks earlier than he did, in mid-March, almost two months after the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the United States, Mr. Trump insisted that he had acted decisively. “I think we’ve done a great job.”...
Asked about his repeated assurances to Americans in recent weeks that the virus would peter out with minimal impact, Mr. Trump insisted, as he has before, that he was trying to reassure the nation.
Trump Self-Grades Trump Solution to Trump Epidemic: “great job”
Trump, Fauci, et also want to put a little voice inside our heads: Trump's previous lies? Trump's previous inaction? "Don't look back, you can never look back." How many deaths would be projected had Trump put his "strict guidelines" into effect weeks earlier, when he should have. Now, now! There you go again. No looking back! It's moot, Dr. Fauci has said--Forward!--thus enabling Trump's lies, see below, thus holding Trump unaccountable:
Mr. Trump, who spent weeks downplaying the threat of the virus — and who has retreated from his recent suggestion that social distancing could be scaled back in mid-April — congratulated himself for projections showing that public health measures may dramatically limit the national death toll.
“What would have happened if we did nothing? Because there was a group that said, ‘Let’s just ride it out,’” Mr. Trump said, without saying what “group” he was referring to.
...
Mr. Trump said that as many as 2.2 million people “would have died if we did nothing, if we just carried on with our life.”
By comparison, he said, a potential death toll of 100,000 “is a very low number.”
Asked how current casualty estimates might differ had Mr. Trump called for social distancing measures weeks earlier than he did, in mid-March, almost two months after the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the United States, Mr. Trump insisted that he had acted decisively. “I think we’ve done a great job.”...
Asked about his repeated assurances to Americans in recent weeks that the virus would peter out with minimal impact, Mr. Trump insisted, as he has before, that he was trying to reassure the nation.
Trump Self-Grades Trump Solution to Trump Epidemic: “great job”
