‘There’ll Be More Death’: Trump Admits Reopening Economy Will Cost Lives. Traders Get Short On China Worries

Donald Trump toured a Honeywell plant in Phoenix on Tuesday afternoon. It was the first time the president traveled outside Washington in at least a month. He wore goggles, but no face mask. The irony of inspecting N95 respirators without following the CDC's guidance on face coverings did not seem to occur to him. Or if it did, he didn't care. And neither did the senior officials who accompanied him. Factory workers and the press, on the other hand, followed protocol. As he wandered the facil

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8 thoughts on “‘There’ll Be More Death’: Trump Admits Reopening Economy Will Cost Lives. Traders Get Short On China Worries

  1. I’m already imagining the actions that will be taken once the 2nd Wave hits the population and (more importantly if you’re Trump) the economy. My guess is that desperate times will call for ever-more-desperate measures. Kevin is probably onto something there.

  2. Figures from one of the mortality analyses on the Johns Hopkins website (see Critical Trends, Mortality Analyses, deaths per 100K population) indicate that if the US had been as competent as Australia or New Zealand or Korea or Taiwan, fewer than 2000 Americans would have died from covid to date. Taiwan proved to be particularly successful. Had our country been as capable as theirs, only one hundred Americans across our entire country would be dead from covid today. Plus, all four countries are well over the hump now and back to business.

    America’s failure, on the other hand, has been epic. More than 65,000 of us should still be alive today. We continue to die unnecessarily. And now Trump is preparing us for a second wave of what are effectively pointless sacrifices to ‘Business’?

    If stupid is as stupid does, our leadership is colossally stupid. Their refusal to learn from either science or success is breathtakingly callous and cruel, and deeply, deeply shameful. Other countries saved both life and livelihood. Why not us?

  3. The British are calling out the Chinese for having UN Security Council Presidency and not holding one meeting on the virus. The Chinese are filling up on cheaper than U.S. oil. Their Soy imports are nose diving. Trump has a timing issue as when best to let down Wall Street. Now would be disastrous for Economy and Street with economy still closed. A war with 100,000 dead before the first shot…….. June, just a guess.

    1. “The British are calling out the Chinese for having UN Security Council Presidency and not holding one meeting on the virus.”

      I am in the UK and have not seen this anywhere. Do you have a reference? China held the monthly Presidency in March. Were there discussions in April or any planned for May? I suspect there were no discussions because the US and China cant agree.

  4. At the outset the mindset was never to minimize mortality but the protect the medical system by flattening the curve. Why all of a sudden is the reality of deaths so unacceptable? Flatten the curve was about pushing them into the future, not eliminating themes

    1. Mr. Mad, Minimizing mortality would also be a good economic outcome. To paraphrase you;
      “We accept huge mortality but on a timeframe. Such it up you cowards”

    2. The reality of death isn’t unacceptable. The reality of unnecessary death is completely unacceptable.

      The countries mentioned above are not just pushing their deaths out into the future, they are finding and eliminating the virus before it can infect and kill more people. New Zealand’s stated goal is to completely eradicate the virus from their country. And they are likely to do it soon.

      These countries implemented physical distancing quickly, traced and quarantined anyone who came in contact with an infected person, controlled their borders, and still have strong trace and test programs in place just in case.

      It’s like they built immune systems for their countries, but on a macro rather than a cellular scale.

      As a result, out of every 200K people in those countries, only one person has died. Out of every 200K people in America? 40 of us have died, and the number is still growing.

      If these countries can save lives AND re-open for business, why don’t we just do what they do? It’s not rocket science.

  5. I read somewhere, maybe on Breitbart’s website, that Trump’s next trip will be out East where he will go to Amity Island and tell the folks there that he will be signing an executive order for them to reopen the beaches. After all real Americans ain’t afraid of no sharks.

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