In a reckless and desperate statement earlier today, malignant narcissist and con man Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump called for the immediate end to stay at home orders, focusing on only protecting what he called "high risk" populations. He's callously disregarding the morbidity of the virus across demographic lines, affecting old and young. In addition, the coronavirus pandemic is still ongoing, and there have been fears that people ignoring stay at home orders and social distancing, as they did during the Memorial Day weekend, will produce a new surge of the virus. Trump made the statement in the absence of medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been sidelined in recent weeks as Trump pushes to fully open the economy. We can't imagine that public health officials are at all on board with Trump's insane urging in the middle of a pandemic.
Trump sees a recovering economy -- not a recovering population -- as vital to his flagging reelection bid in November, so he's desperate to push people back to work, whether the virus is showing signs of spreading or not (but taking care to protect businesses from lawsuits by employees facing unsafe working conditions). He'll have more deaths on his hands, not that it's of any concern to him.
