With knowledge comes understanding.
I finally figured out what’s wrong. The Trump Administration is NOT to blame! They’ve been trying to use new math to figure out the government response and that’s why everything that they’ve done is screwed up. New. Math.
0 to 80 in 60 days.
From the President that understood the Pandemic from the very beginning and having it completely under control and zero deaths before it disappeared we have a new latest and greatest prediction. Our very-stable-genius-greatest-sir-with-tears-in-our-eyes President adjusted his circlet and came up with yet another new prediction as to the number of deaths. He shooting for somewhere past 100,000 now.
Well, I see his hundred and raise him fifty. The rates change almost daily now. New data changes models and predictions. And as Trump foretold in 2014 opening up the country too soon will cause “mayhem” or in our case Aughem. If the death rate holds we’ll have a quarter million people dead by the end of August.
But wait!
Well, granted there wasn’t any mayhem in 2014 nor was there chaos. That epidemic was contained by President Obama just as previous epidemics were contained. They didn’t have the benefit of Sir President Donald J. Trump at their head. They did have his advice. He told them not to open up the country. I will give you that he wasn’t worried about getting elected then.
Saving lives!
But as it turns out we’ve been looking at this from the wrong angle. On the bright side he’s now saying that we could have lost over two million people so once again he’s doing an incredible job, the best job in history. All of history. Not just part of it. All of it. Whole world of history. We should instead be grateful that he didn’t kill more people.
He’ll be doing even better when he starts claiming that we could have lost 3 million people. That’s not exactly true. Technically he’s saying that he has already saved millions of live. Could be a couple of million. Could be many millions. Who’s to know? He knows. The greatest President in history. He may have saved the world. He also is the President with better ratings than President Abraham Lincoln. Hands down better ratings. He is the undisputed ratings winner.
Obviously the Trump Administration has realized that the scientists are right and more people will die because they opened things up before they were even close to being ready. So they’re going to change the messaging from how many people they’ve killed to how many people that they’ve saved instead. It’s easier to make up those numbers. Don’t take responsibility for the additional deaths they’ve caused but rather take credit for the mythical lives saved. If you’re alive he has saved you. Lucky you.
Hodge podge.
This is what happens when the national governing body is broken. This is what happens when you break every department of government and replace competent professionals with food-licking lackeys that haven’t the slightest idea of what they’re supposed to do and whose actual job it is to break the department.
In a pandemic a coordinated national response is crucial. Leadership is needed. Not a self-aggrandizing King granting boons to those that have his favor. Each state responding differently has proven to be a recipe for disaster that we are watching unfold in real time.
Now the price is being paid for in additional lives lost. The majority of lives lost will be seniors and people of color but additional people of every age are being lost as well. That’s just this time around. What will the next one be like? How will the incompetents respond next time? We know how.
They’ll blame others.
IDK, does killing tens of thousands of additional people due to inaction rise to the level of being a mass murderer or is it just manslaughter on a grand scale? At least it’s comforting to know that no one is sadder than President Trump is over this. (Yes he really said that.) That’s why he brags about being so popular and is constantly telling people what a great job he’s doing. It’s because he’s so sad.
He’s the saddest President in history.