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"Six feet and safe." On June 10, the sign on the fence of a house on the Main Street of the town of Chincoteague, in Virginia, was surrounded by other proclamations, such as "Hate has no place in this house", written in English, Arabic, Hebrew and amharic. It was all a declaration of political ... and health intentions. The owners of the house are Democrats. And, as such, they think that social distancing measures should be maintained .

A day earlier, 77 kilometers from Chincoteague, in the town of Salisbury, in the state of Maryland, in a Starbucks chain cafeteria where you could only order and take it to take it at home, in the car or, just on the street, a woman was buying a sandwich while wearing a face mask with 'Muzzled' written on it.

The inhabitants of Chincoteague and the client of Salisbury represent the tension that exists in the society of the United States due to the politicization of Covid-19. Containing the pandemic has become a political trench. And, meanwhile, the virus continues to spread. On Tuesday, the number of positives hit a new record d. It is not that the US faces a 'second wave'. It is that she has not passed the first. More than a wave, what the first world power is experiencing is a 'tsunami'.

The numbers leave no room for doubt. On Wednesday there were 38,672 'positives' in the country, according to the 'Covid Tracking Project', launched by 'The Atlantic' magazine, which is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs , the widow of the founder and former chief executive officer of the Apple tech company. It is a figure that far exceeds the record of 36,001 on April 25, the 'peak' of the pandemic in the country.

California (the country's most populous state), Florida (third by population), and Oklahoma (where President Donald Trump held his first rally in 110 days on Saturday of last week) set their own records. Arizona, which the president visited Tuesday to examine the construction of five kilometers of its wall on the border with Mexico, has the highest number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 since the crisis began. In total, there are 2.4 million 'positives' in the country , but authorities have reported this Thursday that the actual number could be 24 million. To date, 122,172 people have died from the disease. That is more than the number of fallen in the First World War.

The corollary is clear, and confirms the experts' fears: as the pandemic has come under control in the urban area of ​​New York, by far the one most affected by the virus, the outbreaks have been spreading to other territories. It is also an ideological question. Democratic states want to maintain social isolation measures, although, paradoxically, that does not include protests against Trump or the police. Republicans affirm that this is unnecessary and even a form of control by the public powers over the population.

But, given that no region of the United States has the impact on a global level than New York, the media is not making as much echo of that exacerbation of the health crisis. There is also another factor that is causing the pandemic to lose media presence: despite the increase in cases, the death toll is falling . According to the 'Covid Tracking Project', 722 people died Wednesday of the coronavirus. That represents less than a third of the 2,433 deaths on May 5, the day the coronavirus claimed the most lives in the country.

Increase of cases, fall of the Dow Jones

But, even with these nuances, the impact of the flare-up of Covid-19 affects the entire country. Only the news surge on Wednesday overwhelms the ability to synthesize a newspaper article: the Dow Jones index, which groups the 30 largest companies on Wall Street, fell 2.72% due to the increase in cases; the states of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey imposed a mandatory two-week quarantine on anyone arriving from nine states in the west and south of the country; the Democratic Party announced that it will reduce to a minimum its Convention in August, which was to be held in the state of Wisconsin, and which is now practically limited to Joe Biden's acceptance speech of the presidential candidacy; and the White House itself ordered 80 law enforcement officials who worked to protect Trump at his Oklahoma rally to go home and isolate themselves for two weeks.

Even more significant was that the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who had initiated the lack of confidence in April against the advice of the experts and who had explicitly refused to fine those who violated the security measures, announced Thursday that he has paralyzed the reopening of the activities in the state he runs, the third most populous in the country.

Others, however, have taken the opposite measure. Florida Governor Ron Desantis has ordered state medical services not to release information about people with Covid-19 admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU), and has fired a female official who reported that in that The territory has inflated by a third the number of people who have undergone tests to detect the presence of the virus. On Tuesday of last week, Desantis blamed the increase in cases in the state on farm workers "who are overwhelmingly Hispanic" and "go to work on buses like canned sardines," thus favoring the contagion.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, appears to have adopted a "herd immunity" policy similar to that which Boris Johnson tried unsuccessfully to carry out in Britain. This Thursday, the White House has announced that on Tuesday it will suspend the delivery of funds to centers where coronavirus tests are performed.

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