July 29, 2020: Trump Fails to Flatten COVID Curve

 

7/29/20: The U.S. has passed the grim 150,000-mark for deaths from COVID-19. 

Let’s stop and remember when President Trump said we were headed to zero cases soon. That was February 26.

Stay safe, America!

 

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“Well, it will go down to zero, ultimately.” 

President Trump

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Two months later a reporter asked the president, and here I am paraphrasing,  “Sir, do you regret that idiotic prediction?” 

Trump being Trump, never batted an eye. “Well, it will go down to zero, ultimately,” he said, indicating that he had been right all along.

 

Another three months passed. According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. has logged 4.4 million confirmed cases. We just passed France, hard hit in the first wave, in deaths per millions in population: 465 vs. 463. France, which had 1,392 new cases today, has done a good job of flattening the curve. Under Trump’s guiding hand, we haven’t flattened the curve a bit. According to Worldometers, the U.S.A. had 66,921 new cases and 1,485 new deaths today. 

Only fifteen French died of COVID-19 during the same 24 hours.