June 26, 2020: VP Pence Claims We Have Flattened the Curve

 

6/26/20: After two months in the Witness Protection program, Mike Pence emerged from hiding. Today was the first time the White House Coronavirus Task Force has held a public briefing in two months. For some reason, probably because we’re in the midst of a disastrous new wave of infections and the president didn’t want to be associated with that in the public mind, the meeting was not held at the White House.

 

The Task Force was banished to meet down the street at the headquarters of Health and Human Services.

 

 

“We flattened the curve.”

 

Trump has given up entirely, in terms of leading in a time of crisis. He failed to make appearance.

 

It was left to Mr. Pence to do the talking. It turned out that the good Christian gentleman had decided not to be hindered by the Ninth Commandment. “As we stand here today,” he told baffled reporters, “all 50 states and territories are opening up safely and responsibly.”

 

“We flattened the curve,” Mr. Pence continued.

 

My lyin’ blogger eyeballs told me, when I looked at actual graphs, that the VP must be hallucinating. If I glanced at the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control, I did not see a flat curve.

 

On June 26, the same day Pence was telling reporters we had flattened that nasty old curve, we had:

 

44,602 new cases.

 

That was a dismal daily record.

Vice President Pence.