Well then... he's gonna lose... because it looks like at least some states ARE going to have to "shut down again" in some respects. Perhaps not completely, but partially as the virus takes off in places where it was previously propagating at low speed, or not at all.
Apparently, there are still things to be learned about how it transmits, and also how it fades as well.
I've mentioned in other threads and I'll repeat:
This isn't a political issue, insofar as the virus is concerned.
The virus has no knowledge of politics.
All it does is replicate itself when conditions for replication are favorable.
And spread from one host to the next as conditions permit.
When people congregate, particularly in close groupings under cover, those conditions grow more favorable, not less so.
The face masks probably help at least somewhat.
How much, can't say for sure.
Why are they required in surgical situations?
I saw a graph posted somewhere a day or two ago.
On it were represented the virus' spread in a number of countries, including Italy, France, and the USA.
In all the countries EXCEPT the United States, the "curve" of infections seemed to peak quickly and then fall.
Here in the USA, the curve rose to a peak, then fell to what looked like a "plateau" -- and towards the end, began climbing higher again.
Why would the USA have a curve so unlike all the others?
The only reason I can think of, is because Americans are freer than those of other countries, with a more independent and rebellious spirit. The same spirit that "separates us from them" is now working against us, for our natural impulses to behave freely and resent outside control seem to be creating an epidemiological environment (is a roughneck railroad guy allowed to say such things?) that facilitates the social spread of the virus.
But I have no solution as to how to change that.
Perhaps we're lucky that it cannot be "changed".
Well, not yet, anyway.
