.MaddowBlog: With no fanfare, Trump's coronavirus guidelines quietly fade away
,"[W]e will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread." About a minute later, he added,"We can expect that, by June 1st, we will be well on our way to recovery. We think, by June 1st, a lot of great things will be happening."
Those familiar with how calendars work took note of the gap: Trump extended the White House guidelines until the end of April, and he expected great things at the start of June. Isn't there a month in between? Given the framing, I more or less assumed that officials would conclude that social-distancing measures were having the intended effect and the White House would therefore leave the guidelines in place another month. AsThe deadline to lift social distancing guidelines quietly passed on Thursday as the White House pushed a new set of suggestions designed to reopen the U.S. economy now decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.
In their place, the guidelines have been replaced with voluntary re-opening directives, creating a patchwork model in which states are left to do as they please. It's not hard to find knowledgeable observers who see this as a mistake. Richard Besser, the CDC's former acting director,that no one in the Trump administration has yet offered a clear explanation on why states could begin to relax such measures.
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