You know, I really didn’t want to make this blog so Trump-centric, but it seems like a day can’t go by where he hasn’t stepped in it somehow. And this time, it’s as big and smelly as it can get.
Trump admitted back in February, to journalist Bob Woodward (who was writing a book about the Trump Administration, titled Rage) that he knew how virulent and deadly the coronavirus is. He knew and he still downplayed it to the American people. He admitted that he wanted to continue to downplay it so as to not cause a panic. How do you feel about that? How does it feel knowing that the so-called president knew that the pandemic was deadly – that it would be a pandemic (because it hadn’t quite reached pandemic status on February 7), but didn’t bother to do anything to protect the nation because he’s more interested in the economy (that he inherited, and destroyed) and his re-election than having anyone left alive to actually vote in the election?
Well, here we are, September 11, 2020, the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York where over 3,000 people lost their lives in the Twin Towers and on the four-passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania.
Nearly 200,000 (186,000 I believe is roughly the current number) Americans have died from the coronavirus. And they’re not all elderly people. There have been children as young as six who have died. Relatively healthy young adults, teenagers who thought themselves invincible, and adults who just didn’t believe that the coronavirus is real. In fact, 250,000 cases have been linked to a biker rally in South Dakota that the state refused to cancel because, hey, the coronavirus isn’t such a big deal. Trump says so.
I suppose it’s not fair to blame Trump for the 200,000 Americans who have died of the coronavirus. I mean, the entire Republican party put profits and their job security over the lives of their fellow Americans.
It is, however, my view that there are two Americas in Washington. The America where everyone else lives (and dies), and Washington, where the Republicans will do whatever it takes to hold on to the power they have right now. This is the real America.
Anyone who thinks the government, and specifically the Republican Party is a government OF the people and FOR the people has been living under a rock for at least the last four years. Your current administration is working for no one but the President. And your President is working for no one but himself. If you haven’t realized that yet, I don’t know if there’s any hope for you.
My god has Trump done a lot this week. So much to unpack here.
I honestly don’t know how anyone can look at the news from the past week, see what Trump has done, said, and admitted to, and still think he’s the guy to vote for. He has the blood of 200,000 Americans on his hands. Americans who died on AMERICAN SOIL. These aren’t soldiers who died in the heat of battle. They aren’t valiant warriors protecting the Republic for which they stand. They’re moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, brothers, friends. Who did nothing more than listen to a President who said there was nothing to worry about and no need to physically distance, wear masks, close down the economy for a couple of weeks to months, take any precautions whatsoever, all the while knowing that the coronavirus was deadly but telling YOU that it is no worse than the seasonal flu?
He’s still insisting that reporters remove their masks at press briefings because he ‘can’t understand’ them when they talk (he says they’re ‘muffled’) and praises those reporters who don’t don a mask.
The reporter in question, Jeff Mason of Reuters, who was the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, an organization that mandates that reporters wear masks to all press conferences in light of the coronavirus pandemic (www.usatoday.com, September 8, 2020), refused to remove his mask and said he’d just speak louder. Which he did. To which Trump sighed and said it was ‘better’. He then went on to praise a different reporter, who was not wearing a mask and commented on how much ‘clearer’ she was unlike the rest of the reporters who ‘refuse’ (and that’s saying something, because he doesn’t usually praise female reporters).
According to recent projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (www.cnbc.com, September 4, 2020), by December 2020, America could lose 410,000 Americans in total to the coronavirus. That’s TWICE what Trump said was ‘acceptable’ when the projections were 200,000. Well, you’re AT 200,000 with double that in just the next three months. That’s about SIXTY-SIX 9/11s!! How can anyone be okay with that? If America does indeed reach 410,000 deaths by December, that’s ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX 9/11s!
And that’s just if you carry on the way you’ve been carrying on since the pandemic was called a pandemic. If states continue to ease the restrictions, and people continue to disregard the guidance and advice from public health experts, that number could go as high as 620,000. Should I make that bigger for you?
SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND AMERICANS COULD DIE OF COVID-19 IF YOU KEEP ON GOING THE WAY YOU ARE GOING, AMERICA!!
I can’t imagine six hundred and twenty thousand Canadians dying of Covid-19. In fact, as of writing this, Canada has reported a total of 9,163 deaths from the coronavirus. Up 8 since September 10. (www.canada.ca). Nationally. Sure, Ontario and Quebec are our ‘hot spots’, and the West Coast is starting to see a resurgence, but, um, nationally, we have 135,000 cases confirmed.
And Americans wonder why our government insists on keeping the border between our countries closed.
