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100,000 by June: CDC
Dr. Robert Redfeld had an interesting Tweet. 100,000 by June first. It will be higher given where we are as of today. This is over 88,000 dead Americans. President Donald Trump continues to lay blame, and say this was an engineered virus. This is purely a distraction from what is happening. The administration has no plan. And no, two binders does not a plan make. If it was? Why wasn’t it acted upon? This is the main question. Because so far the plan is to open the economy no matter what.
There is even a talking point going around asking questions about the economic cost. Mind you, it’s real. But the health issue and safety is also part of this equation. I suspect that many people are discounting the health effect for a few reasons.
The first is propaganda. Far-right media and the president have tried to diminish the virus from day one. They have done the same they do with the climate emergency. They do not believe the experts because it does not feel right. The president does not believe the numbers are as high as they are. Incidentally, these are laboratory-confirmed cases, not the excess deaths we already have. If we add those, we are already over 100,000.
We have this via the New York Times and Nicholas Kristoff, which matches the experience around the world:
Many supporters of President Trump believe that the figures for…