… and not lose voters. Remember when Tweety said that, early on in his campaign?
We all thought it was hyperbole. Just a figure of speech to highlight how loyal his supporters were, or maybe how mesmerized.
Guess what?
He wasn’t kidding. It wasn’t a figure of speech. Today’s the day. He’s actually going to do it. He’s going to “open the country” even though there is no vaccine to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and no medications to treat it.
New revelations about how completely asymptomatic people can remain infectious for weeks are of no concern to the man-baby. “We’re past the peak”, he will say, as if the threat is over. Doesn’t matter to him that reporting of new cases has slowed because we’re all self-quarantined, and the minute we go back to “normal” it will start up again. What will prevent it? Hydrochloroquine?
Do we have testing in place for everyone? Masks? Protective gear for medical workers? Has anything substantially changed at all in the six weeks since Tweety told us it was all a hoax, like impeachment? That it will all magically disappear in the warm weather? That it was all under perfect control?
It’s not enough for him to simply be incompetent, leaving the heavy lifting to the experts while he impotently pouts in front of Fox and Friends. No, it is his mission to throw gasoline on the fire, sending as many people into the streets as he can. And thinking up new villains to blame for everything while asserting and insisting on his own brilliance. Yesterday it was the World Health Organization not doing its job. Today it’s that the Chinese invented it in a lab.
As I write this, 31,000 people are dead from Covid-19 in the U.S., and that may be greatly under-reported when you understand that many people are simply dying at home without being “counted”. By the time you read this, the number will certainly be much higher. As of a week ago, deaths were doubling here every five days. Tweety’s perfect management of this crisis puts us among the worst places in the world to be right now.
You know who’s doing a better job of managing this thing than we are? Ghana. Burkina Faso. Albania. Azerbaijan. Cameroon. Guyana. Mali. The World.
This chart is updated every day, but at the time of this writing, Coronavirus deaths in the U.S were doubling every five days.
Find more statistics at Statista
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