Donald Trump is effectively abandoning a public health strategy for the coronavirus pandemic and showing “clear willingness to trade lives for the Dow Jones”, critics say.
A leaked internal White House report predicts the daily death toll from the virus will reach about 3,000 on 1 June . . .
. . . Trump has scrapped daily coronavirus taskforce briefings and marginalized his medical experts in favour of economic officials flooding the airwaves to urge states to reopen for business – even amid rising infection rates.
“They’ve decided in a very utilitarian kind of way that the political damage from a collapsed economy is greater than the political damage from losing as many as 90,000 more Americans just in June,” said Rick Wilson, a former Republican strategist. “We’re witnessing the full-scale application of a kind of grisly realpolitik that is a clear willingness to trade lives for the Dow Jones.”
HERE AND NOW (May 5) —
Gotta reopen America!
NOW!
NOW!
Everyone get back to WORK!
Gotta revive my GREAT economy!
I don't care what Birx and Fauci say.
(What do “doctors” know anyway?
Compared to my gut, they're amateurs.
I only need doctors when I fake bone spurs.)
Compared to my gut, they're amateurs.
I only need doctors when I fake bone spurs.)
Gotta show everyone who the real boss is.
Say all these deaths are acceptable losses.
I don't care who dies or gets infected,
I don't care who dies or gets infected,
so long as I get re-elected.
Gotta figure out how to maneuver,
so no one can say, “Trump . . . WHAT! A! LOSER!”