200,000 Americans dead, but Trump says it affects "Virtually Nobody."
More Americans have now died of Covid than of five wars combined.
Or, the US Covid deaths are the equivalent of US deaths on 9/11 occurring every day for 66 days.
Or, the US has suffered an average of 858 deaths every day since February 6, the date of the first known US coronavirus death.
Or, Covid is now the second-leading cause of death in the US this year, behind only heart disease.
Yet President Donald Trump says Covid affects virtually nobody. Rather than publicly mourning, Trump was arguing this week that Covid affects "elderly people with heart problems" and very few other people. "It affects virtually nobody. It's an amazing thing," he said in Ohio.
Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor
Some defense contractors received the Pentagon money even though they had already dipped into another pot of bailout funding, the Paycheck Protection Program...The virus-related funding came at a time when U.S. military spending was already near all-time highs.
US Debt Will Soon Exceed Size of Entire Economy
Next year, the federal debt — the sum of year-after-year annual deficits — is forecast to exceed the size of the entire American economy for the first time since 1946. Within a few years, it's on track to set a new high.
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