The coronavirus has reached the upper echelons of the White House again, with an outbreak among aides to Vice President Mike Pence just over a week from Election Day. A top White House official declared: “We’re not going to control the pandemic.” Officials on Sunday also scoffed at the notion of Pence dialing back in-person campaigning despite positive tests among several people in his office. Pence, who leads the White House’s coronavirus task force, has an aggressive travel schedule planned for the final days of the campaign. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, pressed to explain why the pandemic cannot be reined in, said, “Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu.”
As I've said before, other nations have done a far better job of combating this pandemic, Taiwan most of all. Anywhere from 120,000 to 220,000 Covid deaths were avoidable, if the Trump Administration had really led, had taken strong action to limit the spread of this disease.
Nothing about this state of affairs was inevitable, other than to an administration full of people who made Frank Burns look smart.[1] But these guys have engaged in magical thinking all along, believing that Trump could out-Twitter an infectious disease.
Well, guess what? One can't tweet down a virus. One can only take medically and scientifically sound measures to fight it. Trump and his coterie of morons have been incapable of doing that. If Trump had been in London in 1854, he would have been publishng pamphlets castigating Dr. Snow for proposing to remove the handle of the Broad St. pump to end a cholera outbreak. The Trump White House is a nest of arrogant imbeciles and fools.
Should Trump lose the election, most of them are likely going to be unemployable outside of the Wingnut Welfare Circuit. For who would willingly hire a person who has shown themself to be soomewhere between a soulless sycophant and an idiot?
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[1] "Dammit, Henry, Frank Burns is a menace! Every time a patient croaks on him he says it's "God's will" or somebody else's fault." -- Duke Forrest.
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Trump doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment to the Constitution.
President Donald Trump argued on Monday morning that it ought to be against the law for the news media to cover the pandemic ahead of the elections as the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 225,000.
“We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election,” he tweeted. “COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order to change our great early election numbers. Should be an election law violation!”
Amid his failure to address the pandemic, Trump has publicly griped several times about the media reporting on COVID-19, even going as far as calling CNN “dumb bastards” for doing so.
“You turn on CNN, that’s all they cover,” he ranted during a campaign rally in Arizona last week. “COVID, COVID, pandemic, COVID, COVID, COVID. You know why? They’re trying to talk everybody out of voting. People aren’t buying it, CNN, you dumb bastards.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-wants-covid-19-media-coverage-to-be-illegal-should-be-an-election-law-violation
Spokes-puppet Mark Meadows has stated the administration’s surrender policy by stating that the virus cannot be controlled. They are spouting that they will manage the outbreak with vaccines, which still hasn’t been developed yet. Basically, all you old people can die while waiting for the pharmaceutical companies to develop one.
Dale
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