Pence tries to declare coronavirus over as Trump pushes reopening and campaigning

[FM123]

* These repugs are always trying to hide, twist or cover up the truth and hope we don't notice....

(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.

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On Monday, Pence urged governors to take increased testing into account for increased cases. And on Tuesday, he penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming there is "no second wave" of coronavirus. Pence also traveled to Iowa Tuesday, where he had lunch at a local restaurant with Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and made remarks at Winnebago Industries touting US "recovery."

At the restaurant, neither Pence nor Reynolds nor the restaurant's owner or patrons wore a mask, and he did not practice social distancing as he greeted diners. Pence also openly flouted social distancing guidelines last week with a trip to Trump campaign headquarters, posting a since-deleted photo with a large group of tightly clustered campaign staff, none of whom wore masks.

Pence attributed a rise in US coronavirus cases to an increase in testing during a Monday call with the nation's governors. But those comments came in the context of an extensive conversation between Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dr. Deborah Birx on rising cases that weren't attributed to increased testing.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/mike-pence-coronavirus-reopen-campaign/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Putin's orders are expose every one of us to the virus, let it kill who it will kill

let it overwhelm our system and then when it has done what it has to do, get the rest of us back to work for when Putin rolls in and takes everything.

Something like that.

KNOWING he will lose the election bigly, we can count on unprecedented interference, internet will go down probably, etc.

This is madness that the dumbest adult on earth is in charge.