"White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to

[demmiblue]

"White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking"

Link to tweet

Trump’s advisers, by contrast, are seeking ways to reframe his response to the coronavirus — even as the president himself largely seeks to avoid the topic because he views it as a political loser. They are sending health officials to swing states, putting doctors on TV in regional markets where the virus is surging, crafting messages on an economic recovery and writing talking points for allies to deliver to potential voters.

The goal is to convince Americans that they can live with the virus — that schools should reopen, professional sports should return, a vaccine is likely to arrive by the end of the year and the economy will continue to improve.

White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will “live with the virus being a threat,” in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.

“They’re of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it, the base will move on and the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day,” said a former administration official in touch with the campaign.

[orwell]

1. It will work with a lot of people...

...because it is what they want to hear.

Facts are an "inconvenient truth."

[Hugin]

2. The toll will become a statistic like a ball game score or yesterday's high temperature...

The fact these are individual people dying will fade into the background.

It's how the GrOPpers have managed to whistle past MASS KILLINGS AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS and the CAGING OF CHILDREN without any significant introspection and discussion of what the Hell exactly is wrong with us.

[Nature Man]

3. People could be dying in the streets

and they won't care.

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

[meow2u3]

4. K&R for exposure of the Murderer-in-Chief

[Guilded Lilly]

5. The Cretin knows the power of playing very gullible/stupid/self absorbed individuals...

Which is what a too large portion of the population in this country is right now.
The advent of Reality TV (which is anything but reality) over decades has created a society riddled with entitlement, ADHD, meanness and gullibility.

That is just a part of the battles we face daily with this ogre, enabled, wretched human.
So much daily (hourly?) crap is thrown at us it is literally wearing us down and out. “Numb” is certainly a considerable issue.

Every direction. No let-up.

This is one huge, hellacious war we must win.

[SKKY]

6. I mean, as a concept, it wouldn't be without precedent.

[scarletlib]

7. Each one of those deaths will likely have an impact on 2,3, or more other persons.

Most of us are not hermits. We have family, friends, and acquaintances. Each death will impact those persons.
While in the aggregate we may grow numb, I have to believe each of those deaths viewed locally will have an impact.
A massive wall of death and grief this close to an election has to have an effect.

[ananda]

8. They've lost this war.

They will never get their edge back now.

[lagomorph777]

10. This is THE one issue that Americans care about.

Admitting failure and refusing to fix it is certain doom for the Turd campaign.

[lagomorph777]

9. Great campaign slogan. "So we fucked up and killed your granny. Suck it up."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. So basically

we're now doing Sweden, except on a larger (and deadlier) scale (which the Swedes have already admitted was a mistake)?

[ooky]

12. If I was one of those people sitting in long car lines waiting to have a stick

rammed up my nose I'd be thinking there is no fucking way in hell I will vote for this prick again.

[shockey80]

13. Only dangerous lunatics think that way.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Well we know Trump is already mentally numb