Disturbing Covid-19 trend if we're on Italy's trajectory, playing with the numbers
We could be staring down at a very realistic 53,000 - 237,000 deaths before the tolls begin to subside and there's no evidence that either this republican administration will do anything to prevent that from happening.
If you look at how we're moving up in the deaths per 1 million people category, you'll notice we've gone from 2 deaths/1 M to 7 in a matter of days. We know we don't have proper testing because tRump has dismantled or fired our pandemic security investigators, leaving our country directionless. We have little in the way of testing to accurately determine how bad we really are, so 237,000 dead could be a drop in the bucket.
Right now, Italy's deaths per 1 M stand at 166. Doing the math, they are 23.71 times higher than us as we climb.
If anything, republican incompetence will likely increase the probability that this will be one of the great preventable tragedies in our nation's history, had we just elected Hillary Clinton and more supposedly unlikable democrats at every opportunity.
...According to a previously unrevealed White House playbook, the government should’ve begun a federal-wide effort to procure that personal protective equipment at least two months ago.
But Trump’s aides were told to expect a potential pandemic, ranging from a tabletop exercise that the outgoing Obama administration prepared for the president’s incoming aides to a “Crimson Contagion” scenario that health officials undertook just last year and modeled out potential risks of a global infectious disease threat. Trump’s deputies also have said that their coronavirus response relies on a federal playbook, specifically referring to a strategy laid out by the Centers for Disease Control.
It is not clear if the administration’s failure to follow the NSC playbook was the result of an oversight or a deliberate decision to follow a different course. - Politico
It is clear to me. This is deliberate retribution against what tRump perceives as his enemies; Americans in blue states, whether democrats, liberals, progressives or members of his republican cult45.
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Trump shooting someone on 5th Avenue and getting away with it? Trump is going to get an entire city's worth of people killed over petty divisiveness and he'll probably still get away with it. Fuck. 
