America now has more COVID-19 cases than any country in the world, including China. This is despite the president of the United States saying the following at a February 26 press briefing in the White House:

“As most of you know, the — the level that we’ve had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15. We took in some from Japan — you heard about that — because they’re American citizens, and they’re in quarantine. And they’re getting better too.

“But we felt we had an obligation to do that. It could have been as many as 42. And we found that we were — it was just an obligation we felt that we had. We could have left them, and that would have been very bad — very bad, I think — of American people. And they’re recovering.

“Of the 15 people — the “original 15,” as I call them — 8 of them have returned to their homes, to stay in their homes until fully recovered. One is in the hospital and five have fully recovered. And one is, we think, in pretty good shape and it’s in between hospital and going home.

“So we have a total of — but we have a total of 15 people, and they’re in a process of recovering, with some already having fully recovered.”

On Tuesday the 23rd of March, 13 people died of COVID-19 at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. That’s just one hospital. How does that comport with what White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told us on February 25?

“We have contained this,” Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, said during an interview with CNBC. “I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”

“This is a human tragedy,” he continued. “That’s the worst part of this. The business side and the economic side ― I don’t think it’s going to be an economic tragedy at all.”

He said this right before the stock market took an enormous crap and three million were thrown out of work in an instant.

Kudlow was back on the air on March 10:

As health experts warn of increasing coronavirus cases and encouraged workers to telecommute, President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, declared again on Friday that the disease is “contained” and urged Americans: “Stay at work.”

Trump also insisted Friday: “We stopped it,” apparently referring to cases coming in from China.

The men made their comments on the same day that two more coronavirus deaths were reported — in Florida — bringing the national toll to 17.

Their remarks underscored a widening rift. Health experts are warning of a serious outbreak of a dangerous disease and the necessity for immediate, focused action. The president and his officials, however, are claiming that the threat has largely been quelled.

Kudlow, who has no known background in medical science, said on CNBC that the coronavirus “frankly, so far … looks relatively contained.”

Does it look fucking contained now?

Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday.

In the United States, at least 81,321 people are known to have been infected with the coronavirus, including more than 1,000 deaths — more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen, according to data gathered by The New York Times.

Scientists and health experts warned us and made all kinds of recommendations which were not followed by this administration. Now we have the worst infection curve of any country in the world, and the most cases, too.

Anyone who is still listening to Trump and his minions is incurable, and I don’t mean incurable from the coronavirus.