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A bit of sanity?
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/16/coronavirus-is-back-and-spreading--but-lets-blame-trump-instead-of-each-other/The lockdown was never supposed to be indefinite.
The lockdown was supposed to be a temporary emergency measure, put in place so that the federal government could draft a long-term plan to ramp up testing and tracing, as well as medical response, so the country could be reopened in a safer manner and our health care systems wouldn't be overwhelmed.
Trump got in the way of formulating such a plan, much less implementing one, because he committed early on to the idea that the best approach was to let people get infected by the millions and simply deny that it was happening (which is why he is so opposed to testing).
On Monday, Trump reiterated this notion that it's better to lie about it than deal with it
Worth a read
