"We are not out of danger . " "The consequences would be really serious." "Unnecessary suffering and death". Those were some of the warnings that the technical experts of the White House committee to fight against the coronavirus issued this Tuesday in their statement by videoconference to the Senate Health Committee regarding plans to reopen the country's economic activity. .

His remarks came just a day after US President Donald Trump declared that "we have won" the coronavirus . A few hours later, the media in that country reported that the White House had ordered all the people who work in the West Wing of the White House, where the offices of the President's team are located, to wear face masks, after that several senior officials - including two working in that area - tested positive for coronavirus.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, which often uses the Trump Government as the most reliable reference, the United States has confirmed 81,000 deaths from coronavirus , the highest number in the world, although, in relation to its population, it is a lower proportion than that of the Netherlands and 40% of that of Spain.

Within a month, on June 13 , there are expected to be 106,000 dead (according to the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory), 115,000 (according to Columbia University), 121,000 (according to Washington State University) that the Trump Government used as reference), or 128,000 (according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In any case, the number of deaths in the United States is impossible to determine exactly , because each territory measures it in a different way. And the divergences are extreme. An example: New York City computes the dead using a much broader criterion than that employed by New York State, of which it is a part.

Altogether, 38 of the 50 US states have started the lack of confidence, according to the calculation of The Washington Post , while the White House is pushing for the reopening to be carried out faster , although polls reveal that the Americans are not the work. In fact, the majority of the population began voluntary confinement before the state governors, who are the ones who have competence in the matter, ordered it, as reflected in the analysis of GPS data from cell phones and automobiles. made by the Big Data company Cuebiq.

So the statements of the experts - several of them in voluntary quarantines, after having been in contact with people who have coronaviruses - have added fuel to a highly politicized debate on public health and that, in addition, runs the risk of leading to violence. . Among them was Anthony Fauci, the most visible face of the fight against the pandemic in the US, who warned of the danger of "small spikes in the pandemic that can turn into major outbreaks" if the lack of control is carried out wisely , and He was skeptical about the possibility of classes starting in the academic year, which begins in the United States in August. Fauci has extra police protection after being threatened with death by those who oppose the quarantines. Donald Trump has retweeted messages calling for his resignation.

Armed demonstrations

In the past two weeks, activists supported by the same groups that created the so-called 'Tea Party' - the group that led the opposition to Barack Obama and that spread the theory to the rumor that the president was Muslim and born in Kenya - They have demonstrated in various states to oppose the quarantines. In Michigan, they have entered the Capitol - the building that the state Congress is in - armed with semi-automatic weapons . In North Carolina, they've walked the city of Raleigh on Friday of last week armed with even machine guns. Other forms of protest are car demonstrations that block streets and roads .

Donald Trump has given his support to those groups. In the Michigan case, in particular, the president tweeted that protesters who entered semi-automatic weapons on Capitol Hill "are good people," and urged state governor Gretchen Whitmer, who sounds like a potential vice president candidate with Joe Biden, to negotiate with the assailants.

The kindness of the protesters - and the genius of social networks - was revealed on Monday, when Facebook was filled with messages, which were not removed by those responsible for that company, asking, for example, "to prepare the scaffold" to Whitmer, or, more directly, "a collection to give to a murderer and to have that Michigan woman charged." That last reference seems to lead to the president, who has referred to Whitmer as "that woman."

But the Senate hearing was not the only one yesterday. Also via the Internet, the Supreme Court began the oral hearing of the case to decide whether the President's tax declaration should be made public. Donald Trump has refused to make his Personal Income Tax Declaration public , something that has been a tradition of candidates for the White House since 1972. Congress has been empowered by law to make it public, but the president's legal team argues that it is a motivated movement politically and that, in addition, "would suppose an additional workload" for the president.

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