COVID-19 Cases Accelerate As Trump Considers Backsliding

The deeply ignorant, mercurial Man Baby currently posing as President considers lifting social distancing guidelines ... a dangerous and catastrophic move at precisely the wrong time.  Would could've predicted?

A surge of infections across the United States that has seen a tripling in the number of coronavirus cases could make the country the world’s next outbreak hot spot, World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris said on Tuesday.

“We are now seeing a very large acceleration in cases in the U.S. So it does have that potential,” she said, according to Reuters.

The United States has more than 46,500 positive cases of coronavirus, though experts believe there to be more. Only China and Italy have recorded more cases, according to Johns Hopkins University and Medicine.

It should be obvious to all but the most devoted red hat cultists that it would be a "catastrophically bad" idea to lift distancing guidelines just as the number of cases is rising exponentially:

We are engaged in an effort of social distancing—physically separating ourselves from one another. This is hard, and nearly everyone wants to know when we can stop. Beyond being personally painful, these actions take a massive economic toll: millions of lost jobs, billions if not trillions of dollars of wealth wiped away. It is tempting, at this point, to say that the cure is worse than the disease.

It isn’t. While the cure has large side effects, the disease is worse. [snip]

...[S]ome leaders are already losing their nerve. People without medical or public-health expertise are questioning whether physical distancing is worth it. They’re wondering whether it might be better to let this disease just run its course.

That’s a catastrophically bad idea. The human cost would be devastating, and the economic toll from that devastation might be even steeper than what we’re seeing right now. It’s hard for people to understand just how bad an unchecked pandemic could be. More people could die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in just a few months than have died in every single war this country has fought since its inception. Such devastation would shut down our hospitals and the entire health-care system. Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses and other health-care professionals would likely get sick. The ripple effects on finances, and on human lives, would be massive and uncontrolled.

Meanwhile, the narcissist- in- chief is monopolizing the airwaves, spreading lies and deadly ideas in his nightly news conferences ego- stroking sessions (held after the markets close to avoid selloffs). Dr. Anthony Fauci has missed the last few of these evening sessions, exhausted no doubt by the prospect of stepping in to correct the nonsense the big turd is constantly blabbing. The effect of the timing of this is that the portion of the country in the time zones that would normally have network news during that time have been having that news preempted, shutting down a source of information about the spread of the virus and what leaders at the state and local levels are doing in the void created by Trump's cluelessness and inaction.  Purely coincidental, of course.