Over the previous couple of days, a number of glimmers of hope have emerged amid our present nationwide nightmare, the greatest one being: Due to excessive social distancing and different extremely restrictive measures, well being consultants imagine the estimate of 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from coronavirus would possibly really come out nearer to 60,000. Rational adults doubtless took this information with cautious optimism, totally conscious of the undeniable fact that (1) 60,000 folks continues to be rather a lot, and (2) the new prediction does not imply that we should always pace up the timeline for getting again to common life, significantly in gentle of the undeniable fact that there could also be a second and third wave of the virus. After which you’ve gotten Donald Trump, whose mind seemingly stopped creating round the age of 11.
In his day by day press convention on Friday, held shortly after the New York Instances reported that authorities projections indicated lifting restrictions after solely 30 days “will result in a dramatic an infection spike this summer season and dying tolls that might rival doing nothing, authorities projections point out,” Trump supplied his typical unscientific, from-the-gut, utterly nonsense take. Whereas acknowledging that opening up the nation would possibly result in dying, he added: “Staying at house results in dying additionally. And it’s very traumatic for this nation. Staying at house, in the event you look at numbers, that results in a unique sort of dying, maybe, but it results in dying additionally.”
It’s not clear what sort of “completely different” dying Trump is speaking about right here. Whereas psychological well being consultants have expressed concern about the nervousness and post-traumatic stress dysfunction some folks will expertise on account of the pandemic, which, in some circumstances, may probably result in suicide, mass deaths nationwide would presumably additionally take a toll on folks’s frame of mind. Earlier this week, Trump supporters Diamond and Silk had their twitter account locked for spreading the ridiculous misinformation that “quarantining folks inside their homes for prolonged durations” of time will make them sick, and that “the solely manner we will turn out to be proof against the atmosphere” is by being “out in the atmosphere.”
Requested about the want for complete testing, which consultants imagine is the solely strategy to safely permit folks to get again to work and common life, Trump claimed there’s no want for it in sure locations, which after all is categorically false.
So, how will Trump make the name re: when it’s cheap to elevate the measures which have helped gradual the lethal virus?
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