https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html
Trump’s Virus Is Spreading, and His Economy Is Stalling
The president leads a transition to sickness.
Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist July 2, 2020
トランプ政権が抑制に成功と言った新コロナウイルスは感染拡大が続き、
同政権の誇りとしていた経済の好調も、各所に失調が目立ち始めている。
残念にも状況の先行き見通しは暗く、大統領は（彼の言うグレートネス
ではなく）病へのトランジションを主導する
ポール・クルーグマン

Just over two weeks ago The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by
Vice President Mike Pence titled “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave.’”
The article was supposed to reassure the nation.
What it provided, instead, was a clear illustration of the delusions and magical
thinking that have marked every step of the Trump administration’s response to
Covid-19, producing an epic policy disaster.

Put it this way: By now, according to Trump officials and sycophants, we were
supposed to be seeing a fading pandemic and a roaring recovery. Instead, we have
a fading recovery and a roaring pandemic.

About the pandemic: The Pence article cheerily declared that “cases have stabilized,”
with the daily average number of new cases only 20,000. Even that figure, as it
happens, was five times the number in the European Union, which has a third more
people than America does. Since then, however, new cases have soared, hitting more
than 50,000 by some counts on Wednesday.

Indeed, at this point Arizona, with seven million people, is reporting around as many
new cases each day as the whole E.U., with 446 million people.
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