It's now clear that America is about to hit a death-toll spike that will shock, scare, and dispirit us. Fatalities are a lagging COVID-19 indicator, so we're just now starting to see figures based in the huge infection spike that began 2 weeks ago. This will be a very tough week.

PS/ *Well* over 10% of *all* U.S. coronavirus deaths have been announced...in the first 12 hours of today.

Read that twice.

So that's something to think about if you're one of those convinced by Trump that it's time to ease up on social distancing. No—it's time to double down.