In a roundtable with essential workers on the first night of the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump once again referred to COVID-19 as the “China virus.”

“I don’t want to go through all the names because some people may get insulted,” he said.

Trump didn’t dwell on China for very long ― and no wonder. In that country, which Trump has repeatedly blamed for COVID-19 in racist terms, the local transmission rate of the coronavirus has been close to zero for so long that life has mostly returned to normal.

Wuhan, the city where the virus was first detected, recently held a pool party teeming with thousands of revelers. Restaurants, bars and movie theaters have reopened throughout the country. …continued .
[Source: Huffington Post]