'We’re not going to control the pandemic,' Meadows says; Senate blocks Dems' Barrett filibuster: 2020 election updates

OpEd: COVID-19 can be brought under control but Trump doesn't want to take the steps required to do it.The surge is just starting and it will be far worse than first thought. Texas and Florida are already leading most states in death per 100,000 and is Georgia. It couldn't happen to three nicer MAGAt infested states. 

COVID-19 has been in Japan longer than in the US. Japan has less than 1500 deaths while the US has at least 230,519 as of 10/26/2020. because the in increases seem almost exponential we could have 1 million deaths before a vaccine is available. But the bright side is, most of the dead will be MAGAts. 

 United States

Coronavirus Cases:

8,889,179

Deaths:

230,510

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's chief of staff acknowledged Sunday that the Trump administration won't be able to do much about the spread of COVID-19, and is focusing on cures instead.

“We’re not going to control the pandemic," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told CNN's "State of the Union."

Meadows added, "we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations."

When CNN host Jake Tapper asked, "why aren’t we going to get control of the pandemic?” Meadows responded: “Because it is a contagious virus."

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and others say Trump has never tried to control the spread of the virus, citing actions ranging from his mocking of mask wearing to his insistence on holding campaign rallies with maskless people packed close together.

Biden said Sunday in a statement that Meadows had "stunningly admitted" that "the administration has given up on even trying to control this pandemic. 

"They've given up on their basic duty to protect the American people," Biden said. "This wasn't a slip by Meadows, it was a candid acknowledgment of what President Trump's strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away. It hasn't, and it won't.

"It's sadly no surprise then that this virus continues to rage unchecked across the country and even in the White House itself." 

☕ The latest: 

• The GOP-controlled Senate voted to break a Democratic filibuster on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, which tees up a vote on her confirmation Monday

• Marc Short, chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for COVID-19. At least three staffers have now tested positive, according to CNN and The New York Times. The Times says the total number is as high as five. 

• A lawyer for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner sent a letter to the Lincoln Project on Friday threatening to sue if two billboards in Times Square were not removed. 

📊 What the polls are saying: Fifty-four percent of registered voters said Biden performed better than Trump during the second presidential debate, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Friday. Thirty-nine percent thought Trump came out ahead.