Don’t forget it.
Don’t let it slip from your mind.
*Best case scenario* is 100,000 Americsn deaths.
Save it on your phone. Email it to yourself.
And when this is all over, look at that number again.
The good news: When we end up nowhere near that, Trump will pretty much be guaranteed 2020. Moght as well hand it to him on a platter.
Silver linings!
But don’t forget. Tattoo it on yourself if you have to.
*100,000 American deaths*
Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Malcolm the Cynic 
Numbers won’t change anyone’s opinions. When Rod Dreher was in full chicken-little meltdown a couple of weeks ago blog I asked him if he would retract his opinions if the death toll were to turn out to be just a bad flu season. He said he would admit he was wrong.
Then one of his regulars replied to me that it didn’t matter if “we dodged the bullet this time”, Trump is an idiot who will destroy us all sooner or later, but “you people” (meaning Trump voters) will never acknowledge it.
I’m not a Trump voter, just a guy pushing back on Dreher’s womanly shrieks and fainting spells.
The commentor was accusing me of cognitive dissonance (that I will interpret all events to Trump’s benefit) when he himself was displaying it: no evidence would dissuade him of the conviction that we were doomed, either now or later.
I’m aware of this, but it’s still,good to have a concrete number to compare the fainting spells to reality.