Look around at all the people without masks on - the fear porn just doesn't work anymore. It's over.
Hmm, I seem to recall other 'top people' telling us the very same:
“The level that we’ve had in our country is very low,” Trump said, referring to new confirmed infections, “and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15. We took in some from Japan — you heard about that — because they’re American citizens, and they’re in quarantine.”
That part was generally true. At the time, there had been only a smattering of confirmed cases, with the addition of passengers from the cruise ship Diamond Princess pushing the confirmed total to more than 50.
“So, again,” he added later, “when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Mike Pence predicted the pandemic would be 'behind us' by Memorial Day. Instead, hospitalizations are rising as deaths near 100,000.
Eliza Relman
May 26, 2020, 3:27 PM
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference next to President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, March 29, 2020. Al Drago/Reuters
Vice President Mike Pence predicted on April 24 that the US would "have this coronavirus epidemic behind us" by Memorial Day weekend. US deaths from the virus neared the devastating milestone of 100,000 over the holiday weekend and US hospitalizations are ticking up again. While overall numbers are down, cases are still rising in eight states. Pence's inaccurate prediction is just one of a slew of declarations Trump administration officials have made downplaying the pandemic threat over the last few months.A White House Coronavirus Task Force official told Insider that the nation's overall declining daily death toll, increased testing capacity, and declining infection rate are evidence the pandemic is largely over. |
