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White House on 200,000 Coronavirus Deaths: Call Us When 2 Million of You Are Dead
Apparently a heckuva lot more people are going to have to die before the administration takes this COVID-19 thing seriously.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...navirus-deaths

What’s the White House’s official comment on the matter? Kayleigh McEnany is happy to answer that question.

Asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta on Tuesday, “What do you say to Americans who are outraged about [the country hitting 200,000 deaths] and blame this administration for so many lives lost?” McEnany, who cut her teeth shilling for the Republican National Committee, responded: “As you’ve heard several doctors in the task force note from this podium we were looking at the prospect of 2 million people potentially perishing from the coronavirus in this country. We grieve when even one life is lost, but the fact we have come nowhere near that number is a testament to this president taking immediate action.”

In other words, 1.8 million more people are going to have to die before the Trump administration entertains the prospect of taking this virus seriously and maybe taking a shred of responsibility for allowing it to gain a foothold in the country and run rampant thereafter. (Just fucking with you—they’ll never do that.) Also, the 2 million projected deaths were if the government did absolutely nothing to stop the coronavirus—luckily for the country, various governors and local officials did—so it’s not really something to brag about. Also, for those of you keeping up at home, the White House is still claiming that Trump “never downplayed” the virus, despite the fact that not only is he on tape admitting as much, he confirmed his decision to downplay it in a room full of people earlier this month.