COVID-19 Has Claimed The Lives of 200,000 Americans; Trump Says It "Affects Virtually Nobody"

This morning COVID-19 claimed its 200,000th American life and counting. 

As of this writing, according to Johns Hopkins University, the COVID death toll is now at 200,182 with more than 6.8 million cases (6,867,960) with a mortality rate of 2.9%. 

By the time President Trump debates Joe Biden in a week from now the total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States will have exceeded 7 million. 

But at a rally (a.k.a. superspreader event) yesterday in Swanton, Ohio, Trump had the audacity to claim that COVID "affects virtually nobody."

As noted in Vox, the COVID-19 death toll now exceeds "a number more than the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War combined".

Indeed, there are only three events in American history with a higher death toll - WWII, The Civil War and the 1918 Spanish Flu. 

Let me put it another way. The population of Swanton is estimated to be 3,899 people. For the sake of argument let us round that up to 4,000 people. In which case, COVID-19 has killed the town of Swanton 50 times over and it isn't done killing yet.

COVID-19 is the deadliest, most serious matter the United States has faced in this young century and might end up being the most deadly, serious matter this country has ever faced. But Trump sees fit to treat it as if it were nothing - at least when he's not talking to Bob Woodward. 

Yet this is exactly what happens when the President of the United States put a radiologist in charge of his national response to a deadly, infectious disease. Serious matters are treated unseriously. 

In which case, the onus is on the voters to get serious and vote Trump out in favor of Joe Biden. President Biden won't tell Americans a virus that has killed 200,000 of their fellow countrymen "affects virtually nobody."