Clowns in the Time of Coronavirus
The president opened his response to a looming pandemic with a lie about a vaccine.
The United States is “rapidly developing” a remedy to COVID-19, or the coronavirus, President Trump said, seeming more desperate to stop the plummeting stock market than any new or current cases. He said it would be like a “flu shot,” which he couldn’t possibly know since Anthony Fauci, the government disease expert who coronavirus response chief Mike Pence later told to keep quiet, said that “we can’t rely on a vaccine over the next several months to a year.” So who can we rely upon?
No one in this administration who is loyal to this president, it seems. It may not be their fault; serving him, not you, is what they were hired to do. Meanwhile, we lost both the top White House official in charge of pandemic response and his global health security team last May, and none of them were replaced. This is what it looks like once a government that was built ostensibly to serve the public is deconstructed and reformed to serve an autocrat in training wheels. It looks like a chief of staff claiming the press is only covering a pandemic that has spread to at least 56 nations because “they think this will bring down the president.”
But shouldn’t failing to respond to a pandemic disqualify him from the job, Mick Mulvaney? If Trump keeps performing as he has thus far in handling the coronavirus pandemic, triggering both preventable medical and economic crisis, why wouldn’t this show all the signs that the American public would be insane to re-elect him?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-coronavirus-response-fail-959868/
