White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The coronavirus is still killing as many as 1,000 Americans per day — but the Trump administration isn’t saying much about it.

It’s been more than a month since the White House halted its daily coronavirus task force briefings. Top officials like infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci have largely disappeared from national television — with Fauci making just four cable TV appearances in May after being a near fixture on Sunday shows across March and April — and are frequently restricted from testifying before Congress. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is preparing to resume his campaign rallies after a three-month hiatus, an attempted signal to voters that normalcy is returning ahead of November’s election, and that he’s all but put the pandemic behind him.

“We’ve made every decision correctly,” Trump claimed in remarks in the Rose Garden Friday morning. “We may have some embers or some ashes or we may have some flames coming, but we’ll put them out. We’ll stomp them out.”

Inside the White House, top advisers like Jared Kushner privately assured colleagues last month that the outbreak was well in hand — citing data on declines in community spread — and that the long-feared “second wave” may have even been averted, according to three current and former officials. However, new data from states like Florida and mass protests across the country are renewing concerns about the virus’s spread. Texas, for instance, has reported two straight days of record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations — highs that come shortly after the state kicked off the third stage of its reopening plan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-goes-quiet-on-coronavirus-as-outbreak-spikes-again-across-the-us/ar-BB15hqXM?li=BBnb7Kz

Short attention span

[RKP5637]

1. tRump, a narcissistic sociopath, could give a damn how many people have it or die. He will

come out with a bunch of false information, lies and scream about incompetence of everyone but himself. ... and his cult will applaud.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. That Covid -19 is just so yesterday. Trump has moved on. nt

[crickets]

3. Reprise of the 'one day it will just disappear' way of thinking.

Honestly, I think psych evaluations should be a prerequisite for all presidential candidates, just to confirm that they live here in reality world with the rest of us. Dealing with trump's fantasies day to day is too exhausting and potentially deadly to put up with.

[Docreed2003]

4. The only reason a "second wave" would be averted

Would be if the first wave never ends...it hasn't yet

[uponit7771]

5. Let them die is their reply going forward.

[ananda]

6. This "spike" is hardly surprising considering..

.. all the lack of social distancing that started in May.

[Caliman73]

7. Not surprising

It fits with his strategy to downplay the severity of the virus and the incompetence with which it is being handled by the Federal Government. He knows that continuing coverage of the pandemic will hurt him so downplaying it and allowing it to be replaced by the civil unrest is fine for him. He thinks he can spin the protests into riots and looting to scare White voters to the polls.

115,000 Americans have died in less than 4 months. The deaths continue as some have said, at about 1000 per day. We have about 146 days left until the election in November, even if the death rate was cut in half that would still be more than 70,000 more Americans expected to die between now and then. Close to 200,000 dead in 8 months from something that could have been prevented.

Instead of fighting the virus, Trump will focus on hiding the facts because that is who Trump is. A liar.

[tanyev]

8. "We've made every decision correctly".

What a stupid, petty man.