By Erik Pedersen Managing Editor During his monologue tonight, Trevor Noah noted that America topped 40,000 COVID-19 deaths and 750,000 infections.
Grim stats, to be sure, but not everyone is taking the crisis seriously. “Most of us have accepted that, as painful as it is, we need to stay at home a little longer until we can get those numbers under control,” he said on Comedy Central’s The Daily Social Distancing Show. “But it turns out there’s a different group of people around the country who are saying, “Naw — how can we get those numbers to go up?” Cue news footage of “reopen America” protesters lining the streets and a-carryin’ signs.
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