We're Not "Rounding The Turn" on COVID-19 with More Than 80,000 New Cases Today

For the better part of the past 8 weeks, President Trump has repeatedly said the United States is "rounding the turn" on COVID-19.

Today, this country recorded more than 80,000 new COVID-19 cases. More than any other day during this entire pandemic.

Over the past month, hospitalizations have increased by more than 40% and, unlike the two previous surges, the transmission and hospitalizations rates are spread all throughout the country. 

This is not rounding the turn. It's more like being buried under an avalanche with no way of getting out.

By tomorrow, we will have reached 8.5 million COVID-19 cases and might possibly top 225,000 deaths. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of this writing, there have been 8,489,752 COVID-19 cases in the United States with 223,947 deaths for a fatality rate of 2.6%. 

This is nothing to brag about. But this is President Trump we are talking about. For the third time this year, Trump made a point of picking on Reuters reporter Jeff Mason for wearing a mask. Human life is meaningless to him apart from his own life when it comes to COVID-19 or living near an oil refinery. During last night's debate when Joe Biden spoke about people of color in Texas getting sick because they live near oil refineries, all Trump could say was, “They are making a lot of money, more money than they’ve ever made.” 

Even if it were true, Trump as always somehow misses the point. Or perhaps he just simply passed the turn and didn't even know it was there.