More than any other nation
The Guardian has details on the truth or otherwise of Trump’s “virus going down everywhere!!” tweet:
Trump says “coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere.”
Here’s what we know. Nearly 1,330,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the US, more than any other nation on the planet, and at least 79,500 have died, according to a Johns Hopkins database.
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According to a New York Times database, new cases are decreasing in just 14 states of 50 states. Among them are densely populated states like New York and Michigan, which were among the hardest hit. The list also includes sparsely-populated states like Montana and Alaska.
New cases are still rising in nine US states, including states like Arizona that is pressing ahead with its re-opening on Monday. In the remaining states, the growth rate of new cases has remained relatively steady.
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On Monday, Trump slammed Pennsylvania, a battleground state led by a Democratic governor, for not moving faster to reopen its economy. In the tweet, he broadened his attack to accused Democrats across the country of intentionally slowing their states’ return to normalcy to hurt his chances of re-election.
It’s all about him. “Never mind whether you die or not, do what it takes to get me re-elected!” All completely normal.
We continue going up, too, but our city is moving to reopen. Because we don’t have enough dead yet?
Measures to protect people during a pandemic are going to hurt the economy, of course they are. Inadequate protections, such as have been implemented, are hurting the economy and failing to protect people. Abandoning protections will hurt the economy more, of course, because the virus will kill even more people. What Trump is incapable of understanding is that the virus doesn’t care about elections; it is nothing to do with him, and that is a concept which cannot take hold in what passes for his brain.