After listening to
medical experts in infectious disease and after seeing the numbers of
COVID-19 again increase in some southern, some midwestern states and
others I predict a second wave of the virus will hit in the fall. The
latest June 11, 2020 map of those states where COVID-19 is on the
increase I print from the NYT below. One must take into account this
administration's rabid attempt at denial of science yet again in its
zeal to open businesses up so Trump can see the stock market increase on
his watch. His fantasy, of course, is that he will be named the
economic wonder boy for the 2020 election. He will not.
A
medical expert from Boston University Medical School convinced me this
morning when she (and other experts too) said "You cannot have it both
ways. You cannot open up businesses with lightning speed and expect the
cases of COVID-19 to go down." What you will see is cases will go up
and a second wave of COVID-19 will come to a state near you in the
fall. As Dr. Fauci and others said, deny science all you want but the
virus will do what the virus will do. It does not care about Donald
Trump, it does not care about his rightwing extremist base carrying guns
into the Wisconsin state house demanding their their right to open up
their businesses, it does not care about you nor about me. It cares
about maintaining and increasing its own biological life.
Yet
again Donald Trump does not care about anyone but himself. Indeed, he
may not even care about his family's exposure to the virus. He will
care when in the fall the second wave will have started and will add
significantly to his already weakening poll numbers.
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
By The New York TimesUpdated June 11, 2020, 8:05 A.M. E.T.
https://www.nytimes.com/
