On its current trajectory, the US will record more confirmed cases than China by Friday, and should pass around 1000 total deaths from Covid-19 at around the same time. Some of this is down to aggressive testing and processing, so that older cases are finally showing up, but the more people who had it the further the disease can spread, and the worse this problem will be. Therefore there is little doubt that in or around April, the US, or at least many of its states, will be in a far worse position than the UK, and it is likely to stay that way for a while yet.
The appropriate response to this would be to implement measures similar to those in Europe and the UK. That's the only way to get on top of the health crisis.
And yet, all the signs are that Trump is likely to want to open the country up at the end of its current "15 days to stop the spread" programme, to put the economy ahead of the health risk. Despite the words of Pence et al, it's not clear that this is working, because, as we've seen in the UK, not everybody will cooperate with voluntary measures to isolate.
What is he playing at, then?! This is putting his citizens' lives at risk. Can he be serious, or is this merely hopeful optimism that will be tempered ultimately by events?
This isn't an opinion that comes from just the guy who obviously would say that. The article below, which says more or less the same thing, is written by a guy who counts among Trump's friends, who has defended him at many points through his presidency, and who even got a Christmas card from Trump.
Is this a risk worth taking, to put the economy ahead of lives? If so, then why not here?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146747/PIERS-MORGAN-Coronavirus-doesnt-damn-economy-President-Trump.html