The President is Willfully Ignorant of Scientific Fact . . . or Belevies the American Public is

Today the President of the United States said it was "possible" that reopening the economy "might" result in additional COVID-19 Deaths.  No, Mr. President, it's not "possible." It's certain. There was never any chance that the US was going to be able to eliminate the virus. The US is too big, too fluid and was too unprepared to track and isolate every case early in the pandemic. Stay-at-home orders were only meant to slow the spread of the virus until we were ready to combat it more effectively (most virologists agree that too little has been done to make this possible even now). Your team of scientific experts have been explaining this to you for two months now -- so either you have not been listening, or you assume that the American people are ignorant of the truth (or would prefer to be lied to).

As people go back to work and patronize the businesses that are reopening, the virus will spread and some of the infected will die. Yes, theoretically, it might happen that no one who becomes infected will die (it is even theoretically possible that there will be no knew infections), but the odds of this happening are infinitesimal.

More to the point, just two days before this interview, you said that you expected the number of cases and deaths to increase into June and perhaps beyond.  So which is it, Mr. President?  Are we facing certain increases or only possible ones?