Brace Yourselves—You Won’t Like the Latest COVID-19 Predictions

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by Mark Sumner,  Daily Kos Staff

Just two weeks ago, when Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted that the United States could see 100,000 cases of COVID-19 in a day, it seemed like a nightmare scenario. At the time America had just topped 40,000 cases for the first time. Make that 50,000. Then 60,000. Tuesday was the second day the nation logged over 70,000 cases in a day. It was also the first time the United States recorded over 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 since June 9.

To say that Mike Pence’s “no second wave” op-ed is going to be recorded as one of the most bassackwards statements in history is a given. But what’s shocking is that even Fauci’s prediction that was disturbing at the start of the month, looks like it could end up undershooting the real situation as badly as Pence did. The reasons for that are simple enough: We have governors who are willing to kill their people to score political points, we have a government determined to hide the truth of what’s happening, and we have people who are intentionally destroying their communities to own … whoever is left to care. And the result is that instead of 100,000 cases a day, the United States could be facing a million cases a day. Herd immunity, here we come … with half a million dead in tow.

On Wednesday evening, county commissioners in Provo, Utah convened a meeting for the purposes of discussing a proposed mandate to wear a face mask when schools convene in the fall. That meeting ended up being almost immediately adjourned because more than 100 non-mask-wearing people crammed into the small meeting room, refusing to keep their distance from each other or commissioners. Even more people turned up for an anti-mask rally before the meeting. Comments from those who came to give the commissioners a face full of unfiltered breath included statements that wearing a mask would “break the mind” of children, claims that allowing kids to play in the dirt would boost their immune systems to fight off the disease, and at least one claim that “COVID is a hoax. It’s a lie. It’s a political stunt.”

And that, as much as any other event in the nation, is why hundreds of thousands of Americans are very likely to die in the next six months.

There have been other nations—Italy, France, and Spain are good examples—that faced the COVID-19 pandemic with a good number of blunders, a fair share of denial, and the usual levels of political infighting. But no other nation has so thoroughly discarded both science and reason in a process of self-destruction that seems purposeful in its malevolence.  As one of those people at the Utah commission meeting declared, this is “a weaponized virus.” It is. Americans have weaponized it to kill other Americans.

So where are we heading now? We’re going right where it seemed we might go back at the beginning of March.

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3 years ago

There have been plagues and pestilences for thousands of years, but it’s taken until now – until the Psychotic States of Trumplandia that people try to catch it, while denying it exists. Perhaps a parade of refrigerated morgue trailers down Pennsylvania Ave would make Trump happy?

jess
3 years ago

Given the fact that some states have been reporting deaths and testing differently than they should be numbers are already way off from what we are seeing so this does not shock me at all. Bf was exposed to it this week on a call out with the crew he is on.

3 years ago

Your title was right Mike. I don’t like these predictions, but I expect things will get even worse before this is over.

Tall Stacey
3 years ago

“You Won’t Like the Latest COVID-19 Predictions”

Truth be known, I wasn’t real fond of the last predictions.

Reply to  Tall Stacey
3 years ago

I wasn’t wild over them either. The idiots who adore Trump, however, won’t care because they don’t believe it. Never seen anything like it.

Bill Formby
3 years ago

The stupidity of people these days is beyond explanation. Maybe if we could set up guided tours around the country with the bodies of Covid 19 victims stacked up like logs ready to go a sawmill they would believe the seriousness of this issue.

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