Friday, August 14, 2020

The Plague of Trump: 168,000 Killed*

*Updated


Must needs always keep that, from August 13, at the top of these here daily reportings.

1,224 Killed by Trump today alone. 168,334 since the start of his indifference to the Trump Epidemic. This will be the fourth day in a row where reported Deaths are over 1,000. The recent pattern has been five days of highs. The reporting will fall off Sunday and Monday. That reporting artifact makes the seven-day average the most important metric. Through August 13:



It's a bad story. I wrote just last night that the line then looked more like a trend than an anomalous spike. You can see more vividly tonight the similarity to other upward-trending lines, e.g. July 7-11, and the dissimilarity to the anomalous peaks on June 2 and July 2-3. The seven-day Cases average has been on a plateau of 53k-54k since August 8. The current Deaths average is due to the huge bulge of Cases July 16-31. We should begin seeing shortly a fall off in Deaths from the steep drop Cases took from Aug. 1-6.





7:31 p.m.
168,209 at this moment. Another 1,000+ day.

He is a murderer.