Just so we don’t forget

Never Forget
Dec. 31, 2019. China alerts the W.H.O. to a new virus.
Early Jan., 2020. Trump, at an intelligence briefing, is warned of the danger.
Jan. 21. U.S. confirms first case of Covid-19 in Washington State.
Jan. 22. “Situation is totally under control”, says Trump.
Jan. 23. City of Wuhan is locked down.
***JANUARY 24th, I get covid, from a friend FROM China, they don’t know yet what it is, AND THEY SAID I SHOULD BE DEAD.
Jan. 30. W.H.O. declares an emergency of international concern.
Jan. 30. Trump says “We think it’s going to have a very good ending for us.”
Feb. 1. Trump plays golf.
Feb. 5. Trump administration does not use the successful German test protocol, preferring to create its own. U.S. testing kits are sent to 100 American public health laboratories, but the test is faulty, and the U.S. falls behind other countries in testing.
Feb. 6. First American dies of Covid-19.
Feb. 15. Trump plays golf.
Feb. 16. First death in Europe.
Feb. 23. Italy places towns under quarantine.
Feb. 24. Trump tweets “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the U.S.A. the stock market is starting to look very good to me.”
Feb. 25. The U.S. stock market plunges.
Feb. 27. Australia designates Covid-19 as a pandemic.
Feb. 28. At a rally in South Carolina, Trump described the Coronavirus as “the Democrats’ New Hoax.”
Mar. 5. Greece closes schools, as does Italy and Iran.
Mar. 6. Trump announces “anybody that needs a test gets a test.” Hundreds of emergency rooms are flooded with test requests, but because the U.S. was behind in getting accurate kits made, they can’t get tests.
Mar. 7. Trump plays golf.
Mar. 8. Trump plays golf.
Mar. 8. South Korea tests 189,000 people; the United States tests just 1,700 people.
Mar. 10. Trump says “We’re doing a great job with it, and it will go away.”
Mar. 11. W.H.O. declares a pandemic.
Mar. 13. France closes all schools, as does Ireland and Germany.
Mar. 13. Trump takes no responsibilities for testing failures.
Mar. 13. When asked by a reporter why the Trump Administration abolished a White House pandemic response team in 2018, Trump replies “I just think it’s a nasty question… I don’t know anything about it.:
Mar. 14. Spain goes into lockdown.
Mar. 16. Canada goes into lockdown.
Mar. 16. Trump admits that he dismanatled the pandemic response team in 2018.
Mar. 16. Trump rates his response to the outbreak as a “10.”
Mar. 17. France goes into lockdown.
Mar. 19. Trump admits to Bob Woodward that he knew Covid-19 was a threat to Americans, but decided to mislead them, saying “I always wanted to play it down.”
Mar. 19. China announces zero new cases of Covid-19.
Mar. 19. California issues a stay-at-home order.
Mar. 19. At a press briefing, Trump stated “Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody’s ever seen anything like this before.”
Mar. 20. When asked by a reporter “What do you say to Americans watching right now who are scared?”, Trump replied “I say you are a terrible reporter, that’s what I say. I think that’s a very nasty question.”
Mar. 23. The U.K. goes into lockdown.
Mar. 24. A doctor at Elmhurst Center in NY describes the situation at the wards as “apocalyptic.”
Mar. 26. U.S. death toll reaches 1,000.
Mar. 26. NY emergency dispatchers receive over 7,000 calls in one day.
Mar. 28. U.S. death toll reaches 2,000.
Mar. 29. Trump suggests that shortages of respirator masks are due to nurses stealing them.
Apr. 6. N.Y. hospitals are at the breaking point as the U.S. death toll reaches 10,000.
Apr. 6. Trump declares “We have to open our country up!”
Apr. 15. U.S. death toll reaches 25.000.
Apr. 16. Trump issues guidance to Governors saying they can start re-opening their states in two weeks.
Apr. 23. Trump suggests scientists investigate injecting disinfectants into Coronavirus patients.
Apr. 24. Official U.S. death toll reaches 50,000.
Apr. 28. Trump states that “The virus will go away.”
Apr. 29. Dozens of decomposing bodies are found in u-Haul trucks at a funeral parlor. The funeral director said he used the trucks because he ran out of space in the chapel. “Bodies are coming out of our ears.”
May 8. Trump says “The U.S. is the world leader in responding to Covid-19.
May 8. A huge Disaster Morgue opens in New York, with over fifty refrigerated trucks parked on Brooklyn’s 39th street pier.
May 23. Trump plays golf.
May 24. Trump plays golf.
May 27. U.S. death toll reaches 100,000.
June 21. Trump plays golf.
June 24. Trump’s insistence on reopening results in a surge of infections across Southern and Western states.
June 27. Trump plays golf.
June 28. Trump plays golf.
July 3. Trump plays golf.
July 5. Trump plays golf.
July 11. Trump plays golf.
July 12. The state of Florida registers over 15,000 new infections in a single day; a record.
July 16. The U.S. records a total of 75,000 new cases in a single day. The virus is surging across the country -It is not going away.
July 18. Trump plays golf.
July 19. Commenting on the surging death toll, Trump tells Fox News “It is what it is.”
July 25. Trump plays golf.
Aug. 1. U.S. death toll reaches 150,000.
Aug. 2. Trump plays golf.
Aug. 7. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 156,000 dead]
Aug. 15. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 160,000 dead]
Aug. 22. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 164,000 dead]
Aug. 23. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 168,000 dead]
Aug. 30. Trump plays golf [toll roughtly 171,000 dead]
Sept. 5. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 175,000 dead]
Sept. 6. Trump plays golf. [toll roughly 180,000 dead]
Sept. 20. Trump plays golf [toll roughly 184,000 dead]
Sept. 21. Trump at a rally states “It affects virtually nobody” – death toll 197,000.
Sept. 22. U.S. official death toll reaches 200,000 people. One in every 1,600 Americans is dead.
Even adjusted for population, America’s death toll is twice as high as Canada’s, five times as high as Germany, eighteen times higher than Australia, and eighty times higher than South Korea.
America’s Covid death toll is the highest in the world.
Oct. 2. President Trump and First Lady test positive for Covid.