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President Trump painted a wishful view(*) Wednesday of the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, in which existing treatments can almost cure patients flooding hospitals, all schools will safely reopen this fall, and the country’s soaring cases are confined to a handful of states.
ed: (*) = happy talk and bullshit
But the rosy assessment he issued at a White House news briefing — alone at the lectern without any top public health experts — was undermined by the alarming reality that on Wednesday, almost every metric showed just how badly America is losing its fight against the virus.
The number of daily deaths on Wednesday surpassed 1,100, the first time that mark had been reached since May 29. And total deaths in the United States since the start of the pandemic increased to more than 140,000.
California on Wednesday passed New York in the number of total confirmed coronavirus cases, according to data tracked by The Washington Post, as the pandemic once concentrated in the Northeast continued to boom in the South and the West.
With transmission rapidly spiking in many areas, governors in Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio joined the growing number of states mandating face coverings statewide. More than 30 states require people to wear masks.
Trump’s optimistic outlook Wednesday contrasted with his reluctant acknowledgment on Tuesday that America’s situation “will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better.”
The president — once skeptical of the need for masks — declined to press for a nationwide mandate for masks, despite the near-universal urgings of public health experts. “Some of the governors are strong on masks, others aren’t. I think it’s really going to ultimately be up to them,” Trump said.
He said he was considering a mask requirement for the White House and federal properties in light of a mandate by local officials in D.C.
President Stoopid is the guy who knows nothing, and not only prefers it that way, but insists on it - which apparently makes him think all he has to do is order people to fix things for him, and that's what he believes is good leadership.
Teamwork is when I sit around telling a buncha guys what to do.
I can only imagine what it must be like for Mark Meadows, trying to get it thru 45*'s vacuum packed skull that if he'd pay attention and do what Fauci says, he wouldn't be fucking losing right now.
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