COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

[Former President tack50]

On a fun unrelated note, this thread has now broken into the top 10 longest threads ever on Atlas, being the 8th longest.

In fact, if we added up all 5 COVID-19 megathreads, they would easily be the longest thread ever in Atlas (since threads 2-5 already beat the number 1 spot and I can't find the very first megathread)

I wonder how far this thread will go tbh; though really the answer is "as long as the mods feel want it to be"

[Former President tack50]

A few weeks from now, there’s a good chance that those saying that Europe did so much better then the US at controlling the virus are going to look like Ron DeSantis bragging about how Florida responded better New York.

Spain has gone from averaging 300 cases/day a month ago to 2000 cases/day, and it looks like its second wave has just started growing.  Belgium, which already had the highest death rate in the world, has grown from 100 cases/day to 600 in the same time frame.  Even Germany has seen their cases double in the past two weeks.

Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of the virus, they just delay it.

Spain has more than twice the population of Florida and yet only a fifth of the cases.

Sure, and Florida could have said the exact same thing to New Jersey in May.

The problem in Spain isn’t even the total number of cases right now.  It is that after everyone had hailed them as a model response in contrast to the US, they’ve seen their cases double every week for the last three or four weeks.

If anyone put Spain as a model response, it should have been of what NOT to do considering we still are in the top 5 in terms of deaths per capita