WaPo: WH officials hope Americans will grow numb to escalating death toll & 50K+ new cases a day

[highplainsdem]

Disgusting beyond belief.

New this morning from the Washington Post's Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-biden-campaigns-shift-focus-to-coronavirus-as-pandemic-surges/2020/07/06/53a4ec50-bd62-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

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Advisers to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden see the covid-19 crisis as perhaps the clearest way yet to contrast the former vice president with President Trump, using the stumbling response and renewed surge in cases as way to paint Trump as uninformed, incapable of empathy and only concerned about his own political standing.

Trump’s advisers, by contrast, are seeking ways to reframe his response to the coronavirus — even as the president himself largely seeks to avoid the topic because he views it as a political loser. They are sending health officials to swing states, putting doctors on TV in regional markets where the virus is surging, crafting messages on an economic recovery and writing talking points for allies to deliver to potential voters.

The goal is to convince Americans that they can live with the virus — that schools should reopen, professional sports should return, a vaccine is likely to arrive by the end of the year and the economy will continue to improve.

White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will “live with the virus being a threat,” in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.

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[Squinch]

1. Editing: I think you meant to say 100K instead of 10K in your headline.

[highplainsdem]

4. I couldn't fit WaPo's "tens of thousands" into the subject line. But I'll change it to 50K+.

[Iliyah]

2. WOW . . .

they do live in a bubble.

[efhmc]

3. If numb means we feel helpless because of the ineptitude of DJT, then I agree.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Recommended

No, this is NOT normal for ANY fucking WH ever (not even Shrub's).

[gratuitous]

6. Trump doing what he always does

He's giving up. Any change in his tactics, any adaptation to conditions, even conceding that masking up is preferable to not wearing a mask, would all make it look like he was wrong before. And that simply cannot happen. Rule 1: Trump is never wrong. Thousands of you will die, maybe even millions, but that's a small price to pay to keep Trump from being wrong.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. The ones who "learn to live with it" haven't had it hit close to home yet

But with every passing week more people know more people who get seriously ill from Covid-19, or worse. The fear meter only goes up from here as this spreads across the country.

[highplainsdem]

8. +1,000,000

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Already happened

I remember when Italy was getting hit hard and they were seeing 700+ deaths a day. Many people were saying that Americans would never tolerate those death counts here. Well we got those counts times 3 or 4 and people learned to not care, so much so that now that we're down to 500 deaths a day they paint it as just great.

We're going to see an explosion of deaths, probably back up towards 2,000 a day, I think Republicans just don't care anymore.

This is a window into Nazi mindset and how I know that could happen here. These people watching 130,000+ of their fellow citizens die without caring at all would be totally fine with the military rounding up their neighbors to be sent to extermination camps.

[Demsrule86]

11. Give it time...takes two weeks for the deaths to go up and consider the expense

involved. If you had Covid, it is likely you will be bankrupted...No all polls show dirty donnie is pursuing a losing strategy.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. 2 weeks minimum

I've seen doctors say it's really 3-4 weeks.

[Demsrule86]

19. Very true...but if Texas is killing people who are disabled, it is bad.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. I think what we're going to see is this:

A lot of the people getting it now are young people, those people are better vectors for the disease than older people. It's not the young people who have it now that will be dead for the most part, it's the people they infect that will die. So this delay could be even longer, but it is coming, of that there is no doubt.

[uponit7771]

15. It's worse Nazi information was controlled at that time

[RGTIndy]

10. I saw something sad/funny posted on facebook in Indiana

A Trumper (someone I went to high school with 30 years ago) posted "Does anyone even know anyone who had Covid-19? I don't!" And he got at least 50 responses, all but like 2 that I saw were "Yeah, my mom" "Yes, my neighbor died" "My brother in law was in ICU". Probably not what he was expecting.

[Maeve]

13. Meanwhile, according to worldometers.info

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
3,000,601

[onetexan]

16. Biden's camp needs to run ads with the # cases & death rates on TV and social media to keep it front

& center.

[abqtommy]

17. I've been numb since 2015. Now I'm numb AND angry and the angry is winning...

[gollygee]

18. Imagine having an election strategy of hoping Americans don't care about 50k+ people dying every day

Wow.