These things are true:
Our nation and the world is being staggered by the global pandemic known as Covid 19.
Donald Trump and his transition team were briefed by the outgoing Obama administration on the necessity of preparing for a new flu or other infectious disease that could rise to the level of a pandemic.
Trump not only did nothing to prepare for a pandemic, he scrapped the team of experts President Obama had assembled and cut funding to the Center for Disease Control.
We have known about the serious threat posed by Covid 19 since at least last December.
Despite being urged by some in his own administration to take action to prepare for the inevitable spread of the disease, Trump opted to publicly downplay its seriousness and simply prohibit travel from China and INTENTIONALLY DELAY TESTING for the virus. He was concerned that too much public knowledge of the disease would negatively impact the market and possibly harm his re- election chances.
Despite weeks of assurances by the Trump virus team that "millions of tests will soon be available" and the PERSONAL ASSURANCE of Trump that "anyone who wants a test can get a test", the TOTAL of tests administered to US citizens to date is less than the number of tests South Korea administered DAILY to check the spread of the disease.
Trump continues to tell transparent lies about the nature and extent of the pandemic, preferring to boast about the "great job" he's done rather than actually deal with our reality.
We are very likely to exceed our medical system's capacity and the prospect of Americans dying of Covid 19 in hospital parking lots is not farfetched.
The American death toll is expected to be in the thousands.
There is a scheduled presidential election in November.
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