Trump Death Clock: Times Square Billboard Tallies Lives Lost to COVID-19...
NEW YORK, A "CLOCK OF DEATH" IN TIMES SQUARE DENOUNCES THE LATE REACTION OF TRUMP FACING CORONAVIRUS
A giant sign named "Trump's death clock" by its creator, on the facade of a Times Square building, May 11, 2020 in New York.
"Trump's death clock": this is how hired documentary maker Eugene Jarecki baptized a light panel recently installed in New York to display the number of American deaths from the epidemic that he could have avoided if the president had acted earlier. This "clock", erected on the roof of a Times Square building deserted with the pandemic, posted Monday more than 48,000 dead, on a total of American deaths from the coronavirus now now exceeding 80,000, the heaviest official record of all countries of the planet. The counter of the "clock" increases according to the following assumption: 60% of the deaths in the United States could have been avoided if the government of Donald Trump had decided to promulgate rules of distancing and closing of schools a week earlier than it did, namely March 9 instead of March 16, said Eugene Jarecki in a blog on Medium. The New York director, twice awarded at the Sundance festival, explained using this "cautious" figure of 60%, because it is the one calculated by some specialists based on remarks made in mid-April by the very respected Anthony Fauci . The famous epidemiologist and advisor to Donald Trump then said that the implementation of these measures as of March 9 "could have saved lives".
"Unnecessarily
lost lives require that we demand more responsible crisis management. Just as
the names of dead soldiers are carved on monuments to remind us of the cost of
wars, so quantifying the lives lost due to the late reaction of the president
serves an essential function, "said Eugene Jarecki in his blog post.
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