Coronavirus: Trump predicts ‘a lot of death’ as cases pass 300,000
At his daily briefing, Mr Trump said "there will be death" in a grim assessment of the days ahead.
He sought to reassure the worst-hit states, promising medical supplies and military personnel to combat the virus.
But in contrast to his warning, Mr Trump suggested easing social-distancing guidelines for Easter.
"We have to open our country again," Mr Trump told a news conference at the White House on Saturday. "We don't want to be doing this for months and months and months."
But he said that even as he admitted the life-saving efficacy of the lockdown.
President Trump gave a candid assessment of what lies ahead for the US in the coming weeks.
"This will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately, but a lot less death than if this wasn't done," Mr Trump said.
And yet he said this, too.
By returning to the theme that "the cure cannot be worse than the problem", President Trump again revealed his frustration that America is still at a standstill.
Mr Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to get people out of their homes and back to work.
While opining that the virus had to be vanquished quickly, Mr Trump restated his view that more people could die because of measures being taken to mitigate the impact of Covid-19, than the disease itself.
He warned that some hard decisions had to be made. "We cannot let this continue," he added, referring to nation's stagnation. "We're not going to destroy our country."
Clearly, he's worried about eventual collateral damage and is convinced we will soon have to accept more direct harm from the virus in order to avoid increasing harm caused by the lockdown.
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