Chest Pounding, Test Rounding, Silly Sounding

On Monday, the President of the United States lied repeatedly about the most pressing crisis in the world, made a sick comment to a reporter, had a tantrum, and stormed out of the Rose Garden. And it’s barely making a blip in the news. The lie, complete with large signage, was that America leads the world in testing. In testing patience, maybe. America has results from about 9.3 million tests so far.

+ Related: Wuhan draws up plans to test all 11 million residents over a couple weeks.

+ Tim Dickinson: The Four Men Responsible For America’s COVID-19 Test Disaster. (All the cronyism and institution bashing was going along swimmingly, until we needed those institutions to save our lives.)