The Mirage

Donald Trump’s final campaign argument is that everything is wonderful.

We have turned the corner fighting the corona virus. The number of cases is in decline. Go ahead and social distance if you want to but it really isn’t necessary. The vaccine will available in weeks thank to Operation Warp Speed. The number of new cases reached an all time high of 101,461 today according to Worldometer’s COVID-19 data and the Washington Post report says the number today was nearly 100,000.

Asked Wednesday about when he expects the FDA will greenlight use of the first vaccines, Anthony Fauci moved the administration’s stated goalpost. “Could be January, could be later. We don’t know,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an online interview with JAMA editor Howard Bauchner.

A new health plan will be unveiled shortly after the election a series of executive orders he said are aimed at protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions, ending surprise billing and introducing more affordable public options.

We are now experiencing a super V economic recovery and very soon unemployment number will return to 3.5% and possibly lower. The Wall Street Journal reported “several large companies have announced they’re eliminating tens of thousands of jobs in the coming weeks due to a steep fall in consumer demand stemming from the pandemic. Among them are Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MGM Resorts. United Airlines and Delta say their layoffs will be permanent unless they receive another infusion of federal aid.”

We are bringing back manufacturing jobs “Trump has been all in on this huge resurgence of manufacturing employment, and that has not materialized.” Mark Muro, Brookings economist. But the White House’s trade wars kicked the sector into another slump in 2019, with Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania facing declines or plateaus in manufacturing employment even back in February — well before Covid-19 forced layoffs at dozens of plants. As of July — the most recent month for which data is available — each state is down between 20,000 and 40,000 workers from pre-pandemic levels.

White supremacist? They don’t exist.  All of those people are decent law abiding Christians.