Coronavirus Is on the Upswing | The Daily Social Distancing Show
You know, with states opening up, and people protest in the streets, a lot of the public feel like coronavirus is over. The only problem is, nobody told coronavirus.
America's Covid-19 pandemic has passed another terrible milestone as of this morning, more than two million Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus, more than 112,000 of them have died. the head of Harvard’s Global Health Institute said yesterday; the U.S. death toll could reach two hundred thousand in September.
Earlier this week, 16 states reported an increase in average new Covid-19 cases compared to two weeks ago. At least 14 states have seen a rise in current hospitalizations since Memorial Day including Texas where hospitalizations jumped 42%. In Arizona hospital capacity is at 83%. State data shows the usage of ventilators, ICU beds and intubations at all-time highs.
You know I can’t say that for certain because I’m not, like, a scientist, but I feel like coronavirus grow up with a father who never loved it. Because right now it’s working really hard to prove itself. I mean 200,000 death? By September?
And look, there are many reasons that Americans are taking the pandemic less seriously, but one of those reasons might be the fact that the people running the country barely seem to be thinking about it anymore at all.
I mean they haven’t held a corona press conference to update the public in weeks. Like, I don’t know where country official stands. Do you? Are we winning? Are we losing? Can we go back outside? Can we sneeze on the buffet again? Like, what’s happening?
And it doesn’t help that yesterday, just yesterday, the head of the coronavirus task force did this.
そんな中、昨日、まさに昨日、新型コロナウィルス対策本部のトップがやってしまったのはこちらです。
Vice President Mike Pence has deleted his tweet showing campaign staff ditching coronavirus safety recommendations. He posted the tweet last night showing him with a large group of Trump reelection campaign staffers with no social distancing or face masks. That despite the fact that these are the recommendations of the coronavirus task force that is led by Pence.
You see? This is the problem. How do you expect the public to take things seriously when you yourself are not taking it seriously? You tell people wear masks but you are raw-dogging the air.*1
You tell people to social distance but then you guys are crammed together like, like those tiny fish. Like the fish inside the, the can. The… God. The fish. You know the fish they’ve got the smell. The… Ah, it’s on the tip of my tongue. Goddamn. The…
It was sardines. You’re packed together in a room like sardines. Ha!
サーディンだった!サーディンみたいに部屋にぎゅうぎゅう詰めになりやがって!どうだ!
Look, the point is America's botched coronavirus response is just one of the reasons that 74% of Americans now feel like the country is on the wrong track. And I don’t blame them.
Police are beating up protesters in the streets. Millions of people are unemployed. And Georgia couldn’t even hold a primary election without making people wait in lines for hours. Clearly, American democracy is failing, which means, there is only one thing to do.
If enough of us ask and we do it politely, they can’t say no.
大勢で丁寧にお願いすれば、カナダ人はノーとは言えないわ。
*1:raw dogging: "having sex with no condom" 直訳すると「空気とナマでやってる」。ちなみに、row doggingというのもあって「the practice of multiple people having anal sex with each other at the same time.」らしい。なんだその practice。https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rawdogging