Continuing the Argument a Moment

Another grim milestone passed: 500 dead.

According to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems, there are at least 41,259 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States.

501 people have died.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 23, 2020

Because while human beings see numbers like this and commiserate with the mourners, people like Stephen Moore look at these numbers and argue a death rate of 1.2% is not enough to destroy an economy over.

Here's Stephen Moore, who has been leading this charge: pic.twitter.com/7J48GtDVuj

— Jeffrey Stein (@JStein_WaPo) March 23, 2020

But the number of cases cited by Jake Tapper today, represents a jump of almost 9000 cases since yesterday:

Reported US coronavirus cases via @CNN:

3/1: 89
3/2: 105
3/3: 125
3/4: 159
3/5: 227
3/6: 331
3/7: 444
3/8: 564
3/9: 728
3/10: 1,000
3/11: 1,267
3/12: 1,645
3/13: 2,204
3/14: 2,826
3/15: 3,505
3/16: 4,466
3/17: 6,135
3/18: 8,760
3/19: 13,229
3/20: 18,763
3/21: 25,740
Now: 32,502

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 23, 2020

Now let's make that rise steeper and faster by telling people to go back to work.

This is a numbers game in terms who will be affected, not in terms of who is going to die.

Watch how this becomes the mainstream view on the Trump right pic.twitter.com/mkY8Vscwv0

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 23, 2020

Yeah, thanks, I really feel the love.  But my Millenial daughter is at high risk, too.

Millennials are not immune: Younger adults are large percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations in United States, according to new CDC data. https://t.co/WNA2Z50R49

— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) March 23, 2020

You gonna tell me she is non-productive and is too expensive to maintain?

We cannot lose this fight to assholes.