President Trump has repeatedly insisted that we're rounding the corner when it comes to COVID-19.
Of course, when Trump repeatedly insists upon something one can reliably conclude that it is false. We're no more rounding the corner after Columbus Day than we were on Labor Day and, if anything, we have taken several steps backwards.
For the second day in a row, the new case tally has exceeded 64,000. These are numbers we haven't seen since following the Fourth of July. Consequently, we have now surpassed 8 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of this writing, the United States has 8,040,922 cases along with 218,455 deaths for a mortality rate of 2.7%.
As we all know, President Trump is among the over 8 million Americans who have been afflicted with COVID-19 as well as First Lady Melania Trump and his teenaged son Barron. Now that Trump has survived his ordeal, he is proclaiming that he is immune and has been cured. This is as nonsensical as the notion that we are rounding the corner on COVID-19. Indeed, it is quite possible to be re-infected with COVID-19. That possibility increases when one insists on holding crowded rallies with few masks in sights and isn't forthcoming about undergoing a COVID test before the first presidential debate.
By the time we reach election day, we will have topped 9 million COVID-19 cases. The only chance America has of rounding the corner is by electing Joe Biden as our next President and this is being done as we speak. Of course, even if this comes to pass, there will be much suffering between now and January 20, 2021. Until then, Trump will have us spinning in circles rather than rounding any corners.
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