To the Editor:

Ten months of denial as a method of dealing with the most deadly pandemic in American history is beyond alarming. It was six months after the pandemic had ravaged the majority of U.S. cities that the president stated during a Coronavirus Task Force press conference: “It was time to (and we are now in the process of) putting together a strategy to deal with coronavirus.”

Mr. Trump’s “strategy” refuses to wear masks and mocks those who do.

October 21, 2020