“The scenario that Mr. Trump has been unrolling at his daily press briefings — that the lockdowns will end soon, that a protective pill is almost at hand, that football stadiums and restaurants will soon be full — is a fantasy, most experts said.” Totally. nytimes.com/2020/04/18/hea…
Exactly how the pandemic will end depends in part on medical advances still to come. It will also depend on how individual Americans behave in the interim. If we scrupulously protect ourselves, our loved ones, more of us will live. If we underestimate the virus, it will find us.
In fast-moving epidemics, far more victims pour into hospitals or die at home than doctors can test; the mildly ill or asymptomatic never get tested. If you don’t know how many people are infected, you don’t know how deadly a virus is. 
“Reopening requires declining cases for 14 days, the tracing of 90 percent of contacts, an end to health care worker infections, recuperation places for mild cases and many other hard-to-reach goals.” So far, NONE OF THIS IS HAPPENING.
“As arduous as testing a vaccine is, producing hundreds of millions of doses is even tougher, experts said.”
Trashing China. Trashing WHO has made America not first. But America is ALONE.
