xdscenario, somewhe between 100,000 and çó240,000 americans are likely to die fro1 this virus.ñ["ti ját c more americans than died fighting in korea and vietnam combined. as you can see, the united states, thee1 soaring red line this graphic here, trailse1 the world in flattening thexd pandemic's curve. which brings us to the second reckoning, the government's lpe1 performance. like president trump insisting for weeks that the coronik irus was no worse than the flu, like the lack of testing, the big one starting with the botched cdc test kits. like the government's inadequate stockpile of gowns, masks, and other protective equipment. like the mixed messages on face masks. the cdc recommending them, the president refusing to wear one, like disbanding the national security council's pandemic team in 2018. remember, the sobering death toll numbers hold only if everyone practices social distancing, and as we learned last week,-,mháhat isn't happen %52ávq)e. still, the bottom line is the government has been telling us it's been in control of the virus, when in fact it is the virus which has