Mourning in America

So the Trump administration is projecting that deaths will rise in coming weeks and Trump is pushing for states to reopen anyway? https://t.co/canXHFCIdl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020

Or double the number dead so far.  Alternatively, it's a head fake:

Indeed, this also doesn't make much sense.https://t.co/RzV2Hufgh2

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 4, 2020

Without more context and explanation, are we sure that the White House isn't just leaking these to make the actual, merely-awful numbers look better by comparison?

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 4, 2020

Given Trump's comment in front of Honest Abe last night:

Trump: That’s one of the reasons we’re successful, if you call losing 80k-90k people successful
Bret: That number has changed Mr. President. You said 60
Trump: I used to say 65k and now I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly pic.twitter.com/v4FbbygF5Q

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 3, 2020

I'm inclined to give Nate Silver the benefit of the argument.  Which would be a way of cushioning the rising caseloads, deaths, and hospital stresses, that come from "opening up" the economy?

This whole thing is fucked up.

"Good times are comin'/But they're sure comin' slow."--Neil Young