Get Ready America, The Worst Is Yet to Come from Covid19

The first lede drafted for this article included the number of Americans who have died because of covid19. Two days later, the number has gone up by 5,000+. By the time you read this article, it will have gone up even more. So I don’t have a good lede, but I am very, very depressed and very, very angry.

We were told if we stayed at home for six weeks, things would be better. They’re not. They’re only getting worse.

As the death toll of Americans climb by the thousands each day, there is a bizarre message coming from leaders, almost exclusively Republican, that the worst is behind us. I don’t know why they’re lying to us but they are. Every single indicator points to May being much worse than April, which was much worse than March.

The stay-in-place orders were never meant to eradicate covid19. The goal was to “flatten the curve” and buy our government time to get everything in order for a safe reopening.

In other countries, this is precisely what happened. South Korea had its first confirmed case on the same day as the United States and they’re playing baseball this week. Glorious, glorious live sports. We are, obviously, not playing baseball.

As much as the Trump Administration’s failure to do anything in February was bad, I’d argue their failure…