Trump screwed up. He should have lifted the state of emergency last week. We now know about the workings of coronavirus, its aggressiveness and its lethality...we’ve got a pretty good idea what we’re dealing with. Are we 100% “contained”, no but the pandemic aspect of this is over. This is no Andromeda Strain. This might be classified as slightly more aggressive than seasonal flu. We can now add coronavirus to a long list of other killers in this country...killers far more aggressive than coronavirus.
There’s a lot that we do not know about China (thank China). It’s not just us. Western Europe got hit hard. So we can’t really blame President Trump on this. Now that we see data from NYC, an estimated 1/5 of the city developed antibodies to the virus with 0.5% fatality rate. We should go from there and plan accordingly. If 100% of Americans caught the virus, that’ll mean over 2 million dead. Realistically, the number would be more like a million to a million and half dead if around 70% got infected.
I agree Trump really screwed up on this. Poorly handled by him. Could have been a better leader.