How many?

As of April 12th, 533,000 Americans have become infected with covid-19 and 20,600 have died. In assessing President Trump’s performance handling one of the greatest crises in American history, it would be helpful to know how many infections and how many deaths were due to:

• His two month fantasy of delay, denial, dismissal of the coming pandemic he knew about

• His refusal to promote, indeed mandate, a national stay at home order

• His appointment of Vice President Pence to head his response team to quash public health warnings

• His constant misstatements regarding availability of masks, ventilators, tests and other vitally needed medical supplies

• His disparagement of state leaders as the cause of virus treatment shortages

• His pushing an unproven cure to change the focus from the under tested, under treated victims

• His obsessive promotion of resuming economic normalcy to save the economy

• His insistence on calling the pandemic a ‘Chinese virus’, touching off nationwide fear and mistreatment of Asians

• His forcing top government health experts to waste several hours daily standing woodenly behind him while he spouts or denies all the above at press briefings

How many? Decent, concerned and frustrated Americans would like to know.