You don't understand his brilliant coronavirus response
By REX HUPPKE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
MAY 20, 2020 AT 10:08 AM
... many Americans are not used to having a president who, by his own expert account, has “a very, very large brain” and also has “the best words.” It’s not President Trump’s fault you’re confused. It’s your fault ...
... If the president had done nothing, millions would have died from this nothing-to-worry-about virus. Also, the dead are only a small percentage of the population and it was their fault .. because they were unhealthy, so they don’t really count and technically the COVID-19 death toll is zero. But we salute them — the hardly any — for being warriors in the great fight against this horribly overblown hoax-plague that could’ve killed millions were it not for President Trump’s great leadership ...
... the vaccine, which we’re traveling at warp speed to create, is vitally important and also no big deal because this coronavirus plague — which is nothing to worry about — will simply go away at some point.
... While other countries started widespread testing almost immediately, President Trump made the smart choice of not doing that ... Swift, widespread testing would have shown a large number of coronavirus cases in America, which would have made the president look bad, and the last thing Americans want during a pandemic is to have their president look bad.
... Only a godless liberal would waste time casting blame in the middle of a national not-a-big-deal crisis.
Also, the Obama administration is to blame and Democratic governors are to blame and the people getting sick are to blame and the so-called infectious disease experts who keep saying the nation needs a coordinated federal response are to blame and the media are to blame and hospitals are to blame and China is to blame ...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-coronavirus-covid-hydroxychloroquine-deaths-testing-huppke-20200520-bhfyzbxzcnburhqjvbpsqvuzsa-story.html
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