While overall, U.S. rates have been declining:
....34,300 new cases a day is alarmingly high, infectious disease experts say, and U.S. health officials fear the outbreak could get worse as the nation enters the fall and winter seasons. Health officials have repeatedly warned that they are preparing to battle two bad viruses circulating later this year as the coronavirus outbreak runs into flu season.
Donald Trump doesn't care. His diehard supporters don't care. They still think masks are unnecessary, particularly outdoors. I guess they can't comprehend even the most basic scientific principle that:
Covid-19 can spread through respiratory droplets that pass when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Studies suggest the masks may serve as a helpful barrier to spreading infection.
Trump supporters have no problem going to crowded places like Sturgis and potentially bringing the virus back with them.
We all have the power to choose in November. I agree with Bernie Sanders who in an interview on MSNBC today, while rejecting Saturday's WashPo article in which he reportedly said Biden isn't doing enough, said basically the same thing, couched as "Biden could do more".
“Trump is a disaster. I think most people know it,” he added. “But we also have to give people a reason to vote for Joe Biden.”
[Sanders] said people wanted to hear “a little bit more” from the candidate on issues such as raising the minimum wage, expanding health care and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
To me, Biden seems more interested in winning over the conservative Republican suburban voters and groups like the Lincoln Project than the young, progressive, and Latino voters, many of whom, not receiving an indication from Biden he has specific plans to promote their causes, may stay home or vote for a write-in or third party candidate.
I think this is a short-sighted and costly decision by the Biden campaign for the Democratic Party. The conservatives are just Never Trumpers, who will desert Democrats as soon as the votes are counted. If anything, they will demand a payback from Congress for their support of Biden, which will probably extend to the nomination of Supreme Court Justices. Trump's nominees are bad, but the nominees the conservatives will demand (or hold hostage) are not any better.
By comparison, had Biden chosen to align himself even a little with former Bernie supporters and endorse policies embraced by other young, progressive and/or Latino voters, tens if not hundreds of thousands of voters would have become active members of the Democratic party. Think of how much bigger the Democratic tent could have been had Biden not chosen to align with conservatives for their votes.
Biden is ahead in most of the recent polling of swing states. But as we learned in 2016, polls get it wrong. I hope Trump loses, but I think with Biden, it's just about voting for someone who is not Trump, while Trump's base seems even more excited for him this time around. The Democrats started the election cycle being branded socialists. Trump Republicans now call them anarchists and communists. So choosing Biden did nothing to reduce the leftest label Democrats ran from when Bernie and Elizabeth were contenders.
Donald Trump is as toxic as the coronavirus he minimized. He's pathetic and after four years, remains as unqualified to lead this country as he was the day he rode down the up escalator to announce his candidacy.
