The coronavirus epidemic

The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 122,602. In Oklahoma, 10,733 have contracted the coronavirus and 369 have died. "Let's have a huge indoor rally in Tulsa. Let's not wear masks. I want everyone to yell and cheer and heap praise on me. What could happen?" Tulsa fire department officials say only 6,200 people attended King Donald's June 20 rally. I wonder how many of those 6,200 contracted the virus at that rally. We know eight Trump campaign workers now have the virus. That's their reward for their blind loyalty and devotion to Donald Trump.

Two more Trump staffers test positive for coronavirus after Tulsa rally

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/polit...lly/index.html

The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 123,473. Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all reported a record number of coronavirus hospitalizations today. South Carolina. Isn't that where Myrtle beach is?

At least 17 high school students test positive for coronavirus after a trip to Myrtle Beach

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/us/oh...rnd/index.html

There are 13 federally funded drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in the United States. Seven are in Texas, which has a record high number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. On June 30, the Trump administration will halt funding. Remember, Trump declared at his June 20 rally in Tulsa that we should "slow the testing down" because "by having more tests, we have more cases." Fewer tests would mean fewer reported cases and then the US wouldn't "look so bad." Trump's aides insisted he was only joking but Trump told a reporter, "I don't kid, let me just tell you, let me make it clear." Trump has no empathy and no compassion. He cares only about himself, his image and his re-election chances. He is totally unfit to lead our nation through this pandemic.

New U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass peak set in April as states rethink strategy

https://www.aol.com/article/news/202...tegy/24537007/

The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 127,169. There have been 3,366 deaths in Florida. A large number of people in their 20s and 30s are going out to bars and resturants that have reopened – and a large number of people in their 20s and 30s are getting the coronavirus. That is not a coincidence.

Florida bans bar alcohol consumption as coronavirus spikes
The Associated Press, Jun 26 2020 12:45 PM

Florida today banned alcohol consumption at its bars after its daily confirmed coronavirus cases neared 9,000, a new record that is almost double the previous mark set just two days ago. The Florida agency that governs bars announced the ban on Twitter just minutes after the Department of Health reported 8,942 new confirmed cases, topping the previous record of 5,500 set Wednesday. State officials have attributed much of the new outbreak to young adults flocking to bars after they reopened in most of the state about a month ago, with many of them ignoring social distancing restrictions aimed at lowering the virus's spread.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/202...ikes/24538094/

Gohmert also announced that as soon as the last of his horses have escaped from his barn, he will close the barn door.

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert on why he won't wear a mask: If I get coronavirus, 'I'll wear it'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/polit...can/index.html

Rally attendees were required to sign a statement agreeing to not sue the Trump campaign or the arena in the event they contracted the COVID-19 virus. Now we learn campaign workers pretty much guaranteed attendees would be exposed to the virus.

Washington Post: Trump campaign had social distancing stickers removed before Tulsa rally
CNN, Jun 27 2020 10:37 PM ET

President Donald Trump's campaign directed the removal of thousands of "Do Not Sit Here, Please!" stickers from seats in the Bank of Oklahoma Center in the hours before the President's much anticipated Tulsa rally, the Washington Post reported today. As part of the BOK Center's safety plan for the June 20 rally, arena management had purchased 12,000 do-not-sit stickers with the intention of keeping people apart by leaving open seats between attendees, according to the Post. On the day of the rally, when event staff had already placed the stickers on nearly every other seat in the 19,000-seat arena, the Trump campaign told event management to stop and then began removing the stickers.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/polit...lly/index.html

The United States' death toll from COVID-19 is now 128,437. That includes 31,484 in New York, 15,118 in New Jersey, 8,060 in Massachusetts, 7,089 in Illinois, 6,663 in Pennsylvania, 6,158 in Michigan and 5,935 in California. During the past week, 48 of the 50 states saw increases in the number of coronavirus hospitalizations – and Vice President Mike Pence said two days ago we've "flattened the curve." No, Mike. No, we haven't. This is the same Mike Pence who predicted the pandemic would be "behind us" by Memorial Day.

California orders bars closed in seven counties as coronavirus surges
Governor Gavin Newsom also recommended that bars shut down in nine other counties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...urges-n1232370

The coronavirus death toll is now 130,122 in the United States and 514,020 worldwide. Let's check in on the vain, pompous, narcissistic, egotistical buffoon who bragged four years ago that he alone could fix America's problems:

Analysis: Trump refuses to lead as pandemic worsens and allies desert him on masks
Stephen Collinson, CNN, Jul 1 2020 12:32 AM ET

Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster but Donald Trump has nothing to say and no answers to mitigate a calamity unfolding on his watch that he seems resolved to ignore. On the day when the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci said he would not be surprised to see the US record 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day, Trump refused to break his deafening silence. And the day after his White House described record-breaking new infections that are sweeping the nation as "embers that need to be put out," Trump's campaign claimed credit for the "phenomenal" success of his botched pandemic leadership.

Donald Trump is now pretty much the sole figure in authority in either party – including his major Republican allies – who refuses to wear or endorse face masks that are proven to slow the spread of coronavirus but that he has stigmatized as a liberal plot to harm him politically. Trump appears to have made a political calculation that the best approach in dealing with the pandemic is to refuse to lead.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/polit...rus/index.html

The global COVID-19 death toll is now 518,921. More than 25% of those deaths – 130,798 – have occurred in the United States.
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US sees a record number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/healt...day/index.html

Worldwide, the COVID-19 virus has killed 526,586 people. In the United States, 131,842 have died. In South Dakota, population 885,000, there have been 6,893 confirmed cases and 97 deaths. In staging another self-promoting photo op, King Donald is once again displaying his ignorance, his incompetence and his inability to lead the nation during the coronavirus pandemic. Hey, Donald, maybe you can blow up Mount Rushmore and replace it with a 60-foot-high carving of your own face. I'm sure he's already thought of that.

Trump set for another massive event during national pandemic
CNN, Jul 3 2020 1:02 PM

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump head to Mount Rushmore National Memorial today to celebrate an early Fourth of July at a gathering of an estimated 7,500 people during a global pandemic. No social distancing is planned for the event despite the record-high number of new coronavirus cases in the United States. And the event takes place amid environmental concerns over the use of fireworks in the dry land and as the country engages in a reckoning over its own monuments and racist history.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/polit...rks/index.html

On January 22, King Donald said of the coronavirus, "It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine." On July 1, he said he can't see himself ever wearing a face mask and he predicted the virus will "sort of just disappear." On July 4, he declared – with zero evidence – that 99% of coronavirus cases "are totally harmless." Why is Donald Trump continuing to play doctor? He needs to just shut up. In the United States, there have been 2,967,494 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 132,489 deaths.

FDA commissioner refuses to defend Trump claim that 99% of COVID-19 cases are 'harmless'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/polit...ntv/index.html

In the United States, there have been 3,070,848 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 133,595 deaths – and our irresponsible, incompetent, isolationist President is withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. If Joe Biden is elected President in November, the withdrawal can – and will – be reversed.

Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/polit...ion/index.html

In the United States, 3,158,932 people have gotten the COVID-19 virus and 134,862 have died. With Doctor Donald Trump in charge, the death toll will get worse – much worse.

Analysis: Trump scorns science – and wants his scientists to do the same
CNN, Jul 9 2020 12:08 AM ET

President Donald Trump's fresh efforts to undermine medical and scientific experts and his failure to ask the country to make the sacrifices that could quell the coronavirus are consigning America to a constantly worsening pandemic with no clear route back to health.Trump recommitted to that strategy – which defies the example of nations that have at least temporarily beaten back the virus – by blasting the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on reopening schools on Wednesday as "very tough and expensive." Within hours, Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the White House coronavirus task force, said the CDC would issue new guidelines.

The responses of the Vice President and other top officials at a relentlessly upbeat White House task force briefing, which glaringly clashed with the reality of a new daily record of 60,000 new cases of the virus, underscored how the government is geared more toward appeasing an unbending President than giving an honest accounting of the crisis and taking steps that could defeat it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/polit...ion/index.html

The global COVID-19 death toll is now 559,656. That includes 136,237 in the United States, 69,406 in Brazil, 44,650 in the UK, 34,938 in Italy and 33,526 in Mexico. An ABC News/Ipsos poll out today shows 67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The 33% who approve are probably Republicans, who remain blindly loyal no matter what Trump says or does.

Dozens of Mississippi lawmakers have coronavirus after weeks of refusing to wear masks

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/us/mi...rnd/index.html

As cases rise, Trump hits historic low on handling coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/polit...rus/index.html

In the United States, there have been 3,395,092 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The death toll is now 137,660, including 32,400 in New York, 15,603 in New Jersey, 8,310 in Massachusetts, 7,369 in Illinois, 7,030 in California, 6,958 in Pennsylvania and 6,314 in Michigan.

Florida shatters US record of single-day COVID-19 cases

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/healt...day/index.html

Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci not speaking as coronavirus pandemic worsens

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/polit...rus/index.html

The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 138,108. In New York, 32,444 have died. Here in California, 7,057 have died and there are 237,818 active cases of the coronavirus. The Governor has ordered the closure of zoos, museums, bars and movie theaters.

California reimposes restrictions as coronavirus cases surge
Governor Gavin Newsom orders all counties in the state to close indoor activities at restaurants, bars, movie theaters and more.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/us/us...day/index.html

So Trump looks "out of touch with reality"? In Trumpworld, the land of delusions, there is no such thing as reality. And Trump believes he saved "millions of lives"? Wow. The United States death toll from COVID-19 is now 138,247. The District of Columbia, which has a population of 706,000 and is home to the White House and the Capitol building, accounts for 568 of those deaths.

America shuts down again – choosing reality over Trump's false claims
CNN, Jul 14 2020 12:39 AM ET

While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot. As emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march across southern and Western states, Trump stuck to the fiction that the worst is already over: "We had to close it down; now we're opening it up," the President said of the economy at the White House, patting himself on the back for saving "millions of lives." As new cases of the disease reach 60,000 a day nationwide, many leaders, including those who supported Trump's aggressive approach, now have little choice but to prioritize science over politics, leaving the President looking out of touch with reality.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/polit...rus/index.html

Doctor Donald Trump hath spoken. Testing for COVID-19 "creates" cases. False. "We have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere." False. "Biden and Obama stopped their testing" for H1N1. False. Welcome to Trumpworld, the land of delusions. The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 138,909, 24% of the global total.

Analysis: You won't believe what Donald Trump just said about coronavirus testing

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/polit...ing/index.html

Worldwide, the COVID-19 death toll is now 584,092. In the United States, 139,727 have died. In Oklahoma, 432 have died. Speaking of Oklahoma.......

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt tests positive for COVID-19 weeks after attending Trump's Tulsa rally

https://www.aol.com/article/news/202...ally/24562243/

It should surprise no one that Donald Trump thinks he knows more about the coronavirus than Dr. Anthony Fauci and all the world's medical experts. After all, this is the same vain, pompous, narcissistic, egotistical blowhard who made all these claims: "I know more about ISIS than the generals do" (November 2015); "I know more about courts than any human being on earth" (November 2015); "Nobody knows more about trade than me" (March 2016); "I know more about renewable energy than any human being on earth" (April 2016); "I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world" (May 2016); "I understand money better than anybody" (June 2016); "Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump" (July 2016); "Nobody knows more about construction than I do" (May 2018); "Nobody knows more about technology than me." Welcome to Trumpworld, the land of delusions. The COVID-19 death toll in the United States is now 140,140.

Dr. Anthony Fauci calls White House criticism of him bizarre, says 'let's stop this nonsense' and fight coronavirus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKCN24G2RZ