Okay, this is the rare totally bullshit reporting in the New York Times:
This is still the first wave. It is a horrific reporting error and grave public disservice to write in the nation’s newspaper of record that what we saw in July and now into August is, or “amounts to” a second wave. The fact is we, as a nation, never achieved the 14 days of continuous declines in new cases that the CDC has continually stated would mark the end of a first wave and permit the reopening of the country. The fact is there was no “national” compliance with the the CDC’s 14-day guideline, no national strategy at all to stem the first wave, it was all left up to the individual 50 little petri dishes when to reopen and how. Some never closed, some closed partially, grudgingly, some completely. The only national guidance on reopening or staying open was from ex-president Trump dog whistling his armed, Deliverance, Low Lifes to “LIBERATE!” states he wanted to open. So we saw the Trump Virus consume New York State mainly and the Starbucks Nation and burn itself out there while the rest of the country was largely untouched and not complying fully or even partially with social restrictions, so the virus then moved for the first time into the Confederate States of America and the Southwest. First wave for them, first wave. Now, it’s not even done in the CSA and SW and it’s spreading to the remaining low hanging fruit in the Mid-West. FIRST wave for them. The only place where you can credibly state a plausible second wave hitting is California. We have 50 places to experience a first wave, then decline for 14 consecutive days and then we can see if there is a second wave or if the waters have been stilled and this a consequence of the lack of a science-based one-nation, one-strategy approach. Period there.
First, the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast were hit hardest as the coronavirus tore through the nation. Then it surged across the South. Now the virus is again picking up dangerous speed in much of the Midwest — and in states from Mississippi to Florida to California that thought they had already seen the worst of it.
As the United States rides what amounts to a second wave of cases, with daily new infections leveling off at an alarming higher mark, there is a deepening national sense that the progress made in fighting the pandemic is coming undone and no patch of America is safe.
In Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois, distressed government officials are retightening restrictions on residents and businesses, and sounding warnings about a surge in coronavirus-related hospitalizations.
In the South and the West, several states are reporting their highest levels of new coronavirus cases, with outbreaks overwhelming urban and rural areas alike.
