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from the keep-your-distance-and-wear-your-mask dept.
In June, IHME predicted that the death toll in the U.S. would reach 200,000 by October, which appears to be on track.
[...] IHME previously projected 317,697 deaths by Dec. 1. The model now predicts that the daily death toll could rise to nearly 3,000 per day in December, up from over 800 per day now, according to Hopkins data.
[...] The most likely [IHME] scenario estimates that Covid-19 will kill 410,450 people in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The worst-case scenario, which assumes that restrictions and mask directives will ease, projects up to 620,028 people in the U.S. will die by then and the best-case scenario, which assumes universal masking, predicts that 288,380 people in the U.S. will die from Covid-19 in 2020.
[...] Despite the drop in new cases, the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 everyday in the U.S. has remained high, at nearly 1,000 new deaths per day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
[The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused 2,977 deaths; the current US COVID-19 fatality rate is like having two 9/11 attacks each week. --Ed.]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:36AM (8 children)
And they are right. All the complaints about Trump are a distraction from the fact that it is a State responsibility. Trump has no authority to order lock-downs or re-openings. As much as anyone does have that authority it is State Governors / State Legislatures.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:48AM (3 children)
One lever of control could have been federal control over interstate commerce, but Trump decided not to push that angle.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @06:24AM (2 children)
Oh, yes, let's abuse the Commerce Clause some more. Unlimited power for Emperor Trump sounds great.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @09:44AM
Compared to the governors abusing their Enabling Laws to ignore the legislature, Trump's abuse may have been better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 08 2020, @03:15PM
This might actually be a good time to do just that. In the current climate of Orange Man Bad the SCOTUS are more likely to reject such an argument than they have been for a long time. Precedent setting decisions that limit the commerce clause are a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @08:16AM (3 children)
Then why did Trump claim he had the authority to force governors to reopen churches [nbcnews.com]?
Even if Trump has no legal authority to force states to act in a particular way, he has the ability to provide leadership and guidance to coordinate responses between states. He has the ability to distribute federal resources to states to they have the necessary resources to respond to crises. Trump failed miserably on both counts.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @09:41AM (2 children)
Because religious freedom is covered by the first amendment to the constitution, the highest level of protection something can get, defined at federal level and extended to the states?
The democrat governors wanted to torpedo his reelection; IMO he underplayed his hand back in April when the governors told him to fuck off and was missing in action for two months. The governors pressed on and gave their blessings to the riots, and Trump came back on a law and order platform.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:57PM (1 child)
It's almost as if he has no plan and is reacting to whatever he happens to see on TV that day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2020, @12:19AM
Just wait 'til Shark Week!