President Trump keeps saying that we're rounding the corner with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. Exactly what corner are we rounding? How?
Decades ago, when I was in elementary school, I used to wait for the school bus at the intersection of Palace Ave. and El Alamo St, a steep, one-block-long street that connected Palace and Alameda. One morning it was seriously cold and there'd been freezing rain the night before, so the street was a sheet of glass-like ice. I watched a guy in a brand new jeep pull up to the intersection, get out and lock his hubs into four-wheel-drive, and then try to drive down El Alamo. He immediately started sliding and stomped his brakes, which put the jeep into a spin. It spun down the length of the street until it bounced off the pile of gravel and debris that had accumulated at the bottom of the hill. This sent the jeep skidding along Alameda in the oncoming lane until it bounced over a curb and slammed sideways into a tree.
The Jeep did round the corner after a fashion. Is that what President Trump meant?