Pic Of The Moment: These Two Things Happened On The Same Day

[EarlG]

US Sets New Single-Day Record for Coronavirus Infections

Trump maintains coronavirus will 'just disappear' at some point

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[Sanity Claws]

1. If we all die, the virus will disappear.

[PatSeg]

5. Yep

He didn't say when, just at some point.

[brush]

2. How is this delusional fool still president? Or should I ask...

when are the repugs cowards in Congress going to grow a spine to have their Barry Goldwater/Howard Baker moment and go to the White House and tell trump it's time for him to go?

[NNadir]

7. They are never going to have a Barry Goldwater/Howard Baker moment.

I had no use for Goldwater or for Baker, but, even so, as much as I disagreed with them, I believe they sincerely loved their country.

The current batch of Republicans have made it unmistakably clear that they hate their country although they are very fond of the Confederacy which their country defeated.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

21. He is giving in to what psychologists call "magical thinking"

It's akin to someone with money problems thinking that he is going to win the lottery.

[mokawanis]

3. Trump doesn't care about all the suffering

as long as he doesn't get infected. And he doesn't care about the numbers of cases UNLESS it somehow means he won't be re-elected. Then he cares.

[world wide wally]

4. See?

He DOES have a plan

[IronLionZion]

6. Dude always promised to make America great again

people made assumptions about what that meant

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Thanks, EarlG. Love your graphics - very effective and clear.

I'm sure those take a lot of work and we appreciate it. You create great headliners for our DU home page.

KY..........

[matt819]

9. Hey, he could be right

It could disappear "at some point." But nothing without leaving a wake of perhaps up to 250,000 deaths and a destroyed economy.

The thing is, when you're a sociopath, the consequences to anyone other than yourself are irrelevant.

[Roc2020]

12. that's the brutal truth.

[jls4561]

10. I notice that thing number one (highest # of cases) is from the VOA.

No wonder he wants to put another lackey as head of the agency that oversees it.

[Roc2020]

11. He has given up the fight against Covid-19

the white flag has been waived. All that's left is how many people Covid will kill before Covid takes mercy.

[AleksS]

13. I think his plan is that once EVERYONE has it

There can’t be NEW cases.

It would fit with his idiotic “if we didn’t test, no one would have it” philosophy.

[Hassler]

14. We're number one! USA!USA!USA! PAUTUS is a maroon.

[Mc Mike]

15. Rump thinks he hopes it will disappear.

[Ohioboy]

16. Eventually the world will end too, hopefully not as soon as it probably will with Trump around

[Aussie105]

17. Trump says:

The virus will disappear.
The economy will recover and then grow to new heights.
I will become King of the World!

And I say . . . . his pronouncements sound better if you change one word:

"I think we're going to be very good with the TRUMP MAFIA. I think that, at some point, that's going to sort of disappear, I hope."

Voters of the USA, make it so!

Then we can concentrate on more important things, like getting the thug element out of the police force, developing effective climate change solutions, getting EPA regulations back on track, etc etc.

[Initech]

18. The Super Spreader In Chief

Is it any wonder why we're fucked as long as he's in charge?

[progree]

19. The U.S. daily new cases more than doubled (2.22X) in the past 23 days (7 day moving average)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Daily New Cases: 7 day average (click this checkbox just below the graph)

June 9: 21,282
July 2: 47,243
+122% increase (2.22 Fold)
yup. In just 23 days.

Another grim daily new cases 7 day moving average statistic:

April 10: 32,464 - previous pre-June pandemic highpoint
July 2: 47,243
+46% increase over the April 10 peak

June 25 was the date when the April 10 peak was first surpassed. (Just a week ago!)

Thanks for your graphic -- it clearly shows the three key pertinent points about the daily new cases --

*That we're way up from the early-mid-June bottom
*That we've completely passed the previous era's peak of April 10
*That we're worse off than we've ever been, by far

(stolen )


Ever since about mid-April until mid-June, the media has been telling us the new cases have been going down in the U.S. overall, and they've been right. So we can relax and reopen, like Reagan's "Morning in America" (wrong).

Well, in just the last 3 weeks, cases have rebounded, and gone way past the old April 10 peak.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. How come our graph didn't just go down to near zero ultimately soon maybe?

A timeline of what Trump has said on coronavirus (CBS News last updated all the way back on April 3)