By: Executive Tea Staff

Coronavirus is not over. In fact, it’s far from over.

It’s easy to think that COVID-19 is over. With people walking around without masks - The President and Vice President included - people have largely gotten back to living their regular lives. To keep it real, ever since Memorial Day, people have been acting like COVID-19 completely disappeared. I’m talking no masks, no social distancing, partying, mass gatherings, and alla that. Unfortunately, coronavirus cases across the country are beginning to increase.

Just this week, Vice President Mike Pence dismissed the possibility of a second outbreak. This weekend, Trump is planning on having a packed rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If that’s not enough, both of them having been walking around without masks (seriously). Something important to know: when it comes about the facts about the coronavirus pandemic, the White House should absolutely not be your source for trustworthy information. Let’s not forget that Trump took 2 months to respond to the threat of the pandemic, and continued to downplay the threat of the virus while declaring hat fifteen cases were just ‘going to disappear’. To keep up their pretending act that coronavirus has gone away, the Trump administration has gone as far to silently get rid of their coronavirus task force and cut down on opportunities for health experts like Dr. Fauci to address the nation.

With our highest elected officials turning a blind eye to health experts, it’s easy to understand why the rest of the country has also declared coronavirus as over.

There are some important things that will help you understand why coronavirus is not over:

• States re-opening for business does not mean that things are back to normal, or safe to go back to normal. Just look at Florida and Texas.

• Coronavirus is still contagious AF. In Florida, a group of 16 friends all tested positive for coronavirus after a night out on the town.

• This Wednesday, 10 states - Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas - all of whom started super early re-opening processes, have reported their highest 7-day average of new coronavirus cases by day. And, at least 19 states have reported in increase in total coronavirus cases in the past two weeks.

• Not only are coronavirus case numbers up, hospitalizations are too. The number of people sickened with Covid-19 across Texas’ hospitals hit a new high Wednesday, surging about 11% in a single day.

• Dr. Fauci, the nation’s top expert on infectious disease, has repeatedly warned that coronavirus is not over.

• Over 116,000 Americans have died from coronavirus. There have been over 2 million confirmed cases in the United States and more than 112,000 deaths in four months, with roughly 1,000 people still dying every day across the country.

• The same coronavirus model once used by the Trump administration has now estimated at least 200,000 American deaths by September.

The future of this pandemic is on us. We all have a duty to continue to be responsible. This means no kickbacks, no parties, no bar outings…you get my drift. We’re all tired of being in the house, trust me. But if you hate being in the house now, imagine how upset you’ll be when we have to go through this all over again for the second wave. Stay home, wear your mask if you must go out, and take precautions to protect yourself and the people around you.