One of the things we’re saying is tax it back a year from now. So we don’t have to worry about a big bureaucratic means test. Mail them all out to everybody and let’s get them back from the folks who don’t need them next year.

She told CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper on Sunday morning that she hears the common argument: “Why you are going to give a check to Bill Gates?” But she said that determining who deserves what would create unnecessary red tape that can be dealt with once this is over.

January 22 was Trump’s first public comment on coronavirus, when, asked if there were concerns about a pandemic (concerns that have been fully realized), he answered, “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

He didn’t stop there.

January 24: “It will all work out well.”

January 28: Trump retweeted One America News claiming Johnson & Johnson was creating a vaccine.

January 30: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment—five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”

January 31, Trump limited air travel by foreigners who had recently traveled to China. He’s endlessly bragged about that move, but he didn’t accompany it with any other serious measures to contain COVID-19 in the U.S.

February 2: “Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China,” Trump claims in an interview with Sean Hannity.

February 10, with the U.S. drastically behind on testing: “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

For those of you who may be concerned for me personally… yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population, given my age and physical condition. But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions. I am off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going in to town or seeing anyone. Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day. Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms… but maybe not as grim as they may become here.