Just some anecdotal info I observed. Yesterday the President and the Vice President held a roundtable news conference with members of the President's COvid19 team and airline executives.
The room was also filled with press. Supposedly the VP might have had a Covid exposure a day or two back, and he was sitting right next to the President. No one in the room was wearing a mask. The President has a history of being a notorious germaphobe. Certainly Trump is not that stupid that he doesn't understand the risks- of course he does- better than anyone. Knowing that this virus has a 4-24 day contagious incubation period without symptoms, why would they let the President of the US and others paricipate in ANY public or group function? If you think his public outings are to allay fears , remember this is the POTUS who's safety is paramount to our country and has 24 hr a day Secret Service protection plus. And, if anyone thinks Trump is going to be some type of martyr over this to tamper down hysteria, think again!. The first thing I think that would happen in a severely contagious and dangerous pandemic is to keep the POTUS out of harms way. He certainly has the means to communicate without coming into contact with groups of people. Maybe he is trying to tell us something without words.....
Also , I'm hearing that the greatest vector now is paper money. Makes sense. If they start pulling greenbacks out of the system, it would be a great excuse to go cashless, right?