What Matters: Trump is kidding and people are dying

Mod: Who made TheJoker president?

Trump is kidding and people are dying (CNNlink): The White House says President Donald Trump is just kidding around when he complains too many coronavirus tests are inflating the numbers. Ha ha. LOL. They should be telling him people are getting killed. That's not opinion. States that followed his advice and led the way to reopen first are seeing spikes in new infections -- more than 4,000 in one day in Florida.

The percentage of positive tests in Florida is going up, not down. Hospitalizations in Miami are up, according to Mayor Francis Suarez, who spoke at a news conference announcing a new mask rule -- anywhere in public, including outdoors -- in the city.

People are dying who don't need to die. The US death toll is more than 120,000. At what point does the country's leader have to take responsibility for sustained avoidable death that occurs on his watch? The conversation should shift from what the government is or isn't doing to how much responsibility they have for so many deaths.

Not that Trump is at all focused on coronavirus. Instead he's humiliated that not enough people showed up in Tulsa -- only about 6,000 supporters ignored public health advice and came to his indoor rally over the weekend.

We know there were infected people at the rally because two of Trump's infected campaign staffers were there.

He should be explaining why Covid-19 numbers in Europe are shrinking when in parts of the US they're exploding. He'll be in Arizona on Tuesday and Wisconsin on Thursday for smaller events, but aides are scrambling to make sure the events look full.

The more important story in Arizona is the state's infection rate. Arizona has been adding cases by the thousands every day for the last 12 days.

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