Testing, Not Testing

By all accounts a safe return to business requires widespread testing and contact tracing. Donald Trump wants the opening, but he doesn't want to help with the testing. What are we to make of that?

Trump has been claiming that the United States has done more testing than any "all other countries combined." He's also promised that everyone who wanted to be tested could be tested when that wasn't true. These are flat-out lies, as have been his promised numbers of tests he never delivered. But Wednesday he said,

In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad.

It throws us all the way back to people were stranded on a cruise ship, and Trump didn't want them to come ashore because it would throw off the numbers.

Bottom line: Donald Trump is not going to help with the testing. He shows no signs of caring how many Americans die from this virus, only how bad it makes him look.

From the New York Times article linked above.