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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence tries to declare coronavirus over as Trump pushes reopening and campaigning
(CNN) - Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the administration's coronavirus task force, is publicly painting a rosy picture of the pandemic through his words and actions amid President Donald Trump's push to reopen the country and resume campaigning.
But despite the administration's efforts to declare the pandemic over, 18 states are currently experiencing an increase in cases. And health officials have implored Americans to heed task force guidelines -- including wearing a mask and social distancing -- to slow the spread, and a key model used by the White House is now projecting more than 200,000 deaths by October.
"We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic is not done with us," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said during a STAT Conversation on Tuesday.
"It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy," he said.
But despite the administration's efforts to declare the pandemic over, 18 states are currently experiencing an increase in cases. And health officials have implored Americans to heed task force guidelines -- including wearing a mask and social distancing -- to slow the spread, and a key model used by the White House is now projecting more than 200,000 deaths by October.
"We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic is not done with us," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said during a STAT Conversation on Tuesday.
"It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/mike-pence-coronavirus-reopen-campaign/index.html
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Pence tries to declare coronavirus over as Trump pushes reopening and campaigning (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2020
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. And he claims to be a Christian . . .
ugh
spanone
(135,778 posts)3. ...as phony as trump.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)2. Some of these devout Christians really don't mind lying their asses off.
I was brought up in the Methodist Church. Ive been an atheist since I was about 12, but I always believed in the ethics I learned there. Dont know what in hell these right wingers learned in Sunday School.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,645 posts)5. The real question is not what did they learn in church
But what did they learn at home.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)6. Yes. Racism has to be taught.
gab13by13
(21,234 posts)4. Rachel posted the numbers last night,
My memory isn't that great but it should be close;
Rachel showed where it took 147 days to reach 100,000 dead Americans and projections are it will take 144 days to reach 200,000 dead Americans. That doesn't look to me like the pandemic is over. We very well may not have a second wave, just one long first wave.