Inside Trump's desperate attempts to reopen America

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed the novel coronavirus was likely to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. President Trump was apprehensive about so much carnage on his watch, yet also impatient to reopen the economy — and he wanted data to justify doing so.

So the White House considered its own analysis. A small team led by Kevin Hassett — a former chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers with no background in infectious diseases — quietly built an econometric model to guide response operations.

Many White House aides interpreted the analysis as predicting that the daily death count would peak in mid-April before dropping off substantially, and that there would be far fewer fatalities than initially foreseen, according to six people briefed on it.

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[LisaL]

1. Well, I was concerned Trump would kill us all when he got elected.

Didn't think it was going to be a virus, though.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Cheer up! The nuclear holocaust probably won't happen before November 4.

Plenty of time to sort out the mess in that closet nobody wants to see.

[dewsgirl]

6. Me too, somehow pandemic never crossed my mind

[lapfog_1]

3. Kevin Hassett is an idiot

A frequent guest of Ali Velshi... he has proven over and over the he knows absolutely nothing about economics.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. When I Read "Built An Econometric Model"...

... I thought "Oh, brother!"
That twit can't even spell econometric.

[robbedvoter]

4. Trying to get Cuomo to appear with him - such a reality show move!

I was afraid that might happen when President Cuomo went to DC, but he is obviously smarter than the orange POS! All🍊’s prancing on TV started as an effort to outdo Cuomo.

[yuiyoshida]

5. No testing in place and several Republican states want to open up...

they are going to make things worse...I expect those states to look like NYC... after they open. Over crowded Hospitals and more death.

[kentuck]

7. More than anything, he misses his Nuremburg rallies.

This opening of some businesses will give him the opportunity, if he can draw the crowd?

There is no reason to believe that the cult will not be there to back him up?

[NCjack]

9. Shouldn't Melanoma be involved. She was admitted into USA on an Einstein

visa. That makes her the smartest person in the WH. And, when she has her clothes off, they all give her their full attention.

Which reminds me. It has been too long since the last nude photos. Lascivious Don and she can't expect to live on her past glory. Time for some new nude photos, preferably taken in the Oval Office.

[tanyev]

10. We left 'best-case scenario' in the rear view mirror a long time ago.