"Knee deep" vs. "good place":
"The current state is really not good," the highly respected Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a Facebook and Twitter livestream on Monday.
"We are still knee deep in the first wave" of COVID-19 infections," he said.
Trump, speaking Tuesday in a TV interview, disagreed with Fauci, a key player on the White House's own Coronavirus Task Force.
"I think we are in a good place," the president said in an interview on the "Full Court Press" news show hosted by a former Fox News anchor, adding: "I disagree with him."
"Dr. Fauci said don't wear masks, now he says wear them," he continued, adding that the immunologist has "said numerous things" that according to Trump were bad advice.
"So we've done a good job. I think we are going to be in two, three, four weeks, by the time we next speak, I think we are going to be in very good shape," Trump added. (our emphasis)Not that we need to be reminded, but --
Here's what psychopathic narcissist Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump would have you believe is "a good job" (with considerable help from Trump- worshiping/ fearing governors):
More than 60,000 new cases of COVID-19 were identified in the United States on Tuesday, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
It's the first time the U.S. has reached or crossed the 60,000 threshold of newly diagnosed cases in a 24-hour reporting period.
Tuesday's caseload shattered the country's previous record set on July 2, when more than 54,000 new cases were identified.
The national total currently stands at 2,996,098 diagnosed cases with at least 131,480 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.
By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up and crossing 50,000 for the first time last week. (our emphasis)Hospitalizations, especially ICU bed availability, are reaching or surpassing critical mass in some states:
As the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases reported nationwide rapidly approaches 3 million, dozens of hospitals in Florida have run out of space in their intensive care units. Arizona is also swiftly approaching full capacity for ICU beds, while Texas, another hot spot, reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.Florida, Arizona and Texas. Where have we seen those states in the coronavirus conversation before?
So, because he's a psychopathic narcissist, COVID Donnie's response to all this is to:
-- push to kill the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare);
-- push states to re- open schools in the Fall, regardless of the risk to students, teachers and their families (and threaten to cut off funds if they don't);
-- withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization;
-- continue to lie about the danger of coronavirus;
-- not model responsible behavior by refusing to wear a mask in public;
-- continue to plan large, super- spreader gatherings of his knuckle- dragging base.
It's up to all of us to end this. 118 days until November 3.
