This chart should be getting Trump's attention

 

Analysis byZachary B. Wolf, CNN, Updated 11:54 PM ET, Wed July 8, 2020

 

President Donald Trump has a track record of rewriting reality when it suits him.

 

- He corrected a NOAA hurricane map with a Sharpieto bolster his own wrong claim about a storm track. 

He routinely rejects US intelligence assessmentswhen he dislikes them.He doesn't believe in climate change.

- Face masks have become our new normal, and with these masks, you can make sure you're doing even 

more good than usual. He's pushed unproven and potentially dangerous treatments for Covid. He disagrees

 with Dr. Anthony Fauci and thinks

- "we're in a good place" on coronavirus. So it's hardly a surprise that Trump, who insists that schools must 

reopen in the fall in order to put the economy back to normal, rejected the list of best practices for

 reopening developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Read here about his tweets today, and about the CDC's response, which was to update the guidelines, 

as well as about the possibility that Trump could withhold funding from school districts and states that 

move more slowly than he wishes.Trump's newest allergy to professional opinion comes directly on the 

heels of him encouraging states to open up before meeting the CDC's earlier guidelines.They did, and 

now Covid is re-aging in the US. Will states again follow his lead and reopen schools before the virus is         

under control? 

- A summer camp in Arkansas closed down Wednesday after an outbreak of Covid among campers.

- Tulsa sees Covid-19 surge in the wake of Trump's June rally at the most striking about Trump's insistence

that everything is fine, despite the resurgence of cases, is that it's hitting states that voted for him.

- Look at the chart of Covid case spikes tracked against 2016 results:It may be that the people getting                sick are not the people in those states who are most likely to vote for Trump. But these are among the            many states now reinstituting restrictions on their residents, because the disease is spiraling out of control.

The US has now crossed 3 million infections. (*)