CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “As we’re seeing in foreign countries around the world where cases are once again surging — you have many places where we thought they were under control and doing a great job, and they are doing a great job, but this is a very tough, invisible enemy — lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just don’t. It comes back. Many times, it comes back.
The purpose of a lockdown is to buy time to build capacity, especially as it respects to — with respect to hospitals; learn more about the disease [coronavirus]; and develop effective treatments, as we did in the United States. We’re doing very well with the vaccines and the therapeutics.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020