3/23/20: President Trump – and President Trump’s defenders – are flailing at this point.
True, no president in history could have handled this health crisis perfectly. To a degree, we might cut Trump some slack, if he wasn’t such an ass.
(See, for example, Trump’s sarcastic response on hearing that Sen. Mitt Romney was self-quarantining.)
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Mitt Romney, in mask, has COVID. |
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“Oh, hell, he’s in crazy town.”
Dr. Abby H. Viall, Centers for Disease Control, referring to
the president
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First, the grim truth. As of early this morning, the U.S. had 33,276 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. That included Sen. Rand Paul, who knew he might be infected. Sen. Paul still decided to use the Senate gym yesterday, just hours before his diagnosis came back.
Despite all of Dr. Zero’s recent bluster about “winning” and what a great job he’s doing in addressing this crisis – and all his pitiful and-counterproductive predictions in weeks past – the U.S. now has more cases than all other countries, excepting only China, where the virus erupted, and Italy. Around the world there are more than 336,000 confirmed cases and 14,641 dead…
And then…the afternoon numbers start coming in. In just a few hours, the U.S. caseload rises to 41,511 on one website and 41,569 on the other, with 504 dead.
Using the second website, which has slightly higher numbers worldwide,
there have been 372,146 confirmed cases and 16,310 deaths. Based on that evidence,
the death rate would be 1 in every 23 patients. In the U.S., with more advanced
medical care, and 504 dead, the rate would be 1 death for every 82 patients.
Since the blogger’s oldest daughter works for the Centers for Disease Control, he has been kept relatively well-informed. She believes the death rate will be lower than 1 in 82 if we start identifying all mild cases. She also believes the death rate will be several times higher than ordinary flu.
Whereas this blogger admits having zero love for President Trump, his daughter is not biased, as far as the blogger can tell. She assessed Vice President Pence’s performance, so far, as good. Trump? When asked to describe his efforts, she replied, “Oh, hell, he’s in crazy town.”
She also said she believes Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah
Brix, on the administration’s coronavirus team, are doing an excellent job.
In any case, the following states are essentially shut down for business for the foreseeable future:
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
New
Jersey
New
York
Ohio
Oregon
West
Virginia
This
morning, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome
Adams warned,
“I want America to understand this week it’s going to get bad.”
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