Here in Connecticut, we just had our highest one-day increase in infections and deaths yet:
1,853 new infections (19,815 total)
204 new deaths (1,331 total).
There doesn't seem to be "a peak" here, not yet.
"Open up for business", and those numbers will shoot up even higher, I reckon...
Victor wrote above in post 8:
"There is going to be a recognition that we are just going to have to bite the bullet and let the virus win over the short term so that humanity can win over the long term. It is an awful trade off, but we have no choice but to make it."
I don't contest what you wrote. It's reasoned and logical.
But if we do this, Mr. Trump (and the rest of the Republicans along with him) face a high possibility of losing the election in November.
Folks here had better face up to that.