The White House isn’t even observing the no handshake and touching surfaces rule, much less social distancing and wearing masks.
If you listened to his odious speech this morning, you heard him speak about he pandemic as if it’s in the past in one breath while touting cures and vaccines in the next. He even said at one point that “it’s going to go away.”
If you want to see how great it’s going you can compare us to other countries:
Trump said yesterday that this is because we are doing so much testing. In fact he insisted:
“If we stopped testing right now, we would show very few cases, if any,” Mr. Trump said.
Needless to say, just because you aren’t testing, it doesn’t mean we have no cases. And even if you believe that these numbers are just showing more cases because of more testing, Medical experts refute that.
“It’s not just there’s more testing,” says Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “The percent of the people testing positive are also increasing.”
Trump has been told that, I’m sure. But they’ve decided that their best bet for re-election is to try to convince people that they are no longer in danger and just hope that most of their own voters continue to put believe him instead of his lying eyes. It’s quite clear that none of them care about the vast number of daily preventable deaths.
This could be a problem for him though. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell:
Unless he has Bill Barr’s Robocops come to my door and drag me out to a restaurant or the mall or really, anywhere else, I’m not going.
I love to go out to bars and restaurants. But I’m not dying to do it. I doubt I’m alone.