Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Jumpin said:

Why is the US trying to hide coronavirus numbers and information even at the cost of human life? Why is there a move to get rid of masks? It makes no sense, it’s like the US went full suicidal.

Is it some kind of bizarre ego thing? (Like perfume drinking in Irkutsk) Or is it more a superstition thing where people believe they can’t get it if they ignore it?

I mean, the US being retarded is normal, but this is kind of  horrifying on top of being retarded as people are literally going to die because of it when they didn’t have to.

Probably because the high numbers make look the management of the president the way it is: atrociously bad. So he's hoping that by not testing, he could boast falling covid numbers and thus that the country is making much better. He certainly tries to use this for his election campaign, but right now, it has the opposite effect.

Also possibly because Europe is opening it's borders again - but only to countries who managed the virus well and are doing at least as well as the EU at large, which the US don't by country miles. So with less testing, he could try to point at lowering numbers and with it hope that US citizens could reenter Europe by trying to point at those numbers.