WWTD?

            My general observation in life is that people who have the least compassion for others often end up being the ones that need it the most.

Divine providence.

            Seriously, What Would Trump Do (WWTD) if the situation were reversed? How would he act? The Greatest Draft Avoider couldn’t avoid the virus, try as he might. He created a bio-bubble of testing around him and the virus still got through. Walls don’t stop it. If he had avoided testing would the virus have still got to him?

            And it happened now. Of all the times that it could have happened it happened now. Wade in evangelicals. First God sent a plague. You didn’t get the memo. You did nothing and continued to support the Great Liar. Then God gave your “Chosen One” the virus. All a part of God’s plan? The Liar got the virus so that we wouldn’t have to? Oops! Can’t say that since 220,000 have died in the country and it is a worldwide pandemic where millions will die before it’s over.

            Divine providence?

            Hardly.

            Mankind screwed this up. We’re good at that.

            If President Obama had had any of this happen on his watch Evangelicals would be shouting from the pulpit that this was God’s revenge on a fallen nation.

White House Covid-19 Hot Spot

            So who would have thought that the White House would turn into a hot spot for the Covid-19 contagion and the President of the United States would be a super spreader? Well the answer to that question should be self-evident and is to people that live in the real world. The only really big surprise is that it didn’t happen before this.

            That was one cold-blooded SOB move for Trump to go ahead and go to his rich friends’ fundraiser knowing that he had been exposed along with his team. There have got to be some pissed off attendees over that. (Depending on which timeline you believe, he may have already tested positive before attending the fundraiser. It certainly seems that he might already have been symptomatic as well.)

Dusting

            I have seen a few dust-ups over how people should talk about President Trump since he was air-lifted to Walter Reed because he caught Covid-19. The primary gist from Trump’s die-hard cult members seems to be that people that claim he’s an unfeeling asshole only concerned about himself should be showing a lot more compassion in his time of need.

            In other words people should show the compassion that they espouse to a serial killer who is directly responsible for killing tens of thousands of people unnecessarily.

Trump killed my Dad….

            ….or mom or uncle or aunt or fill in the blank. That’s what surviving family members are in the news saying.

My dad is dead because he believed Trump about the virus being a hoax.

My mom is dead because she wouldn’t wear a mask because of President Trump.

My family is dead because they all got together thinking that it was safe because of President Trump.

Garden party.

            An uninvited guest crashed the Rose Garden Party. The White House Rose Garden appears to be where many people contracted the virus. Everyone had been tested beforehand. It’s evident that mistakes were made. Because attendees were under the mistaken notion that they were safe, many, if not most, went mask-less, even indoors. They ignored the science. They ignored the data. They ignored the recommendations of epidemiologists. Like his cult followers they thought that they were safe.

They were wrong.

Never pivoted.

            WWTD? There was talk from some Trump supporters that when Trump became President he would pivot to being and acting Presidential. He didn’t he got worse. At the end of his term he is emboldened by the power of the office and his character flaws have become worse. He’s now a playground bully with power.

            So what would Trump do if the situation were reversed and it was Biden that acquired Covid-19?

Ω  First off he would have made fun of him for wearing a mask and still getting Covid-19. He makes fun of sick people. They’re disgusting to him.

Ω  Trump tees off with lies. His supporters pass on his lies whether they believe them or not.

Ω  He would call people names.

Ω  Insults would pour out of him just like they always do.

Ω  People around him would be blamed for him getting Covid-19. Not him.

I’ll take sociopaths for $500, Bob!

            President Trump is saying that he wants to get back to holding rallies! He’s raring to go! He’s chomping at the bit! Back to business as usual. He survived! Now he’s willing to sacrifice even more people worshiping at his altar.

            In his comments before being airlifted to Walter Reed hospital and receiving the best medical care possible and from the hospital, he didn’t mention his team or the Secret Service men and women that he puts at unnecessary risk because of the image he wants to portray of being a macho non-mask wearer. He takes no responsibility.

He is what he is.

The NEXT ONE

                                     

Are we there yet?

            Why write about the next pandemic when we’re a long way from being through the first one?

            Hundreds of thousands more lives could be lost or saved, depending upon who is in charge. With Trump and the Republicans in charge it’s practically a guarantee that we’ll lose several hundred thousand more.

            Why? Because Trump and his lackey Senators would have to acknowledge that they’ve been lying to everyone and are responsible for losing so many more lives than was necessary. They would have to admit that they killed men, women and children in order to stay in power. POWER is what’s most important to them. Republicans couldn’t agree to give working people enough money to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families but they can move within hours to get a Supreme Court justice in their pocket during a pandemic. That’s their priority.

They have health insurance and regular testing.

            200,000 lives have been lost so far by President Trump. He knows that the virus is deadly, is airborne, a killer and yet he continues to lie to the American people and encourages practices that could result in hundreds of thousands more deaths. It’s crazy that a sentence like that is now possible yet it is. Due to under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths we’re likely almost at 300,000 now. Upwards of 3 million people have lost family or close friends. And we aren’t close to being done. We have yet to reach our destination.

The pandemic spread is getting worse.

When?

            According to the as yet not completely silenced CDC, fully 90% of our population is still at risk and flu season is now upon us. Have you had your flu shot? Well guess what? Trump’s hard core science-denying base doesn’t believe in flu shots any more than they’ll get a vaccine for Covid-19.

            President Obama successfully handled 3 global health issues during his term in office. It isn’t unreasonable to think that another pandemic is waiting in the wings. Not a matter of if one will come. Only when. The one that we’re in could come back if the virus mutates like a flu virus.

            President George Bush warned of a pandemic in 2005 and started making plans. Those plans did not say that lying to the American people about a killer virus was a good approach to saving lives. President Obama tried to follow up with preparedness but Republicans shot down funding. Trump finished off any preparedness early on. And now 205,000 people have died. You might notice that’s a different number than I used a couple of paragraphs back. That’s because that many more people have died since I started writing this a couple of days ago.

Red is now winning!

            Trump and company were okay with Blue states suffering the brunt of the virus but now Red states are taking the lead. Their gamble is that they will kill more Dem voters than cult members. Originally they thought that Dem Governors would be hit hard with handling the virus since there was no federal help. That worked for a while. It’s as if all of these suits didn’t realize that they were dealing with a killer virus that state boundaries don’t stop.

            Like President Trump, Governor Parson of Missouri is doing a dismal job of dealing with the pandemic. He, like Trump, has abdicated his responsibility and left it to local authorities to try and deal with a conservative populace that thinks this pandemic is a hoax. Meanwhile the hospitals are starting to fill up.

            Governor Parson and his wife have tested positive for the virus. He has made it a point of ignoring precautions. (He and his wife tested on a regular basis.) So he caught a hoax, as did his wife. They are quarantining separately.

A joke.

            Unpopular ideas and actions can save lives. Had a nationwide shut down been taken at the very beginning along with masking and physical distancing when it should have we would already be past the middle and on the downside of this pandemic and thousands of lives would have been saved. PERIOD. Procedures would have been in place to deal with oncoming flu season. Instead, by Election Day we could have over a quarter of a million hoax deaths.

The joke is on us.

 

Hoax vaccine coming soon!

 

Look to the skies!

            The Trump coronavirus task force has decided that a vaccine isn’t needed after all. Essential oils are going to be distributed to the entire population including bitty small children. It’s going to take a combination of English Leather, lavender, sandalwood, frankincense, WD40, musk, Old Spice, essence of Trump steaks, myrrh, and some proprietary oily stuff that comes off car windows that have been sitting in the sun for years. Some herd mentality chanting will be involved in order to attain maximum effectiveness.

Plan 9.

            The coronavirus is a hoax but Tweety Trump is going to deliver a vaccine for the hoax coronavirus at a cost of several hundred million dollars paid to some bigly rich Big Pharma CEOs so that he can be the savior for the virus that never was and that his devotees won’t take anyway because that would be too controlling and cost them their freedom to be American and holy as the founding fathers intended when they created a nation of slavery that continues until today because Black Lives Don’t Really Matter to them unless they’re getting ready to move into low cost housing and bring down their property values since there will be unstoppable rioting, looting and marauding moved into their neighborhoods with only the mighty Tweety Trump to save us as he’s the only one that can do all these things because the President is all powerful and above the law as are all those that cover for him and commit any illegal acts that he never knew about except hearing that the witch-hunting Dems were after him again at the behest of their behind-the-scenes unknown handlers who are in all likelihood malicious interdimensional travelers like Bob Woodard which doesn’t matter to the probably big surly that will come to Trump with tears in their eyes saying, “Sir, here’s the vaccine that only you could have made possible”.

God Bless America.

Anybody that wants a vaccine can get a vaccine.

            Remember when < Trump said that >, “Anybody that needs a test gets a test”? Said that in March. Wasn’t true then. Isn’t true now. He also said that the tests were perfect. They weren’t. Six months into a pandemic and the nation is still hobbled with inadequate testing.

            Not only that, his administration has cut back on testing support that wasn’t adequate in the first place. Widespread testing for anybody that needed it didn’t happen any more than the travel ban. Trump just says whatever he thinks is selling at the time. People wanted to hear that widespread testing was available so he said that it was. But it wasn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XwC9IQKBc .

He really doesn’t care.

            It’s immaterial to Trump whether the vaccine works or not. He’s saying it to get re-elected. If it isn’t ready it will be somebody else’s fault anyway because the buck stops anywhere else but with him.

            It’s immaterial to his cult members as well. Good grief, they won’t wear a mask; does anyone really think that they’re going to stick a needle in their arm to get a vaccine for a virus that’s a hoax? These people are a textbook example of what not to do during a global pandemic. They are the zombies of the apocalypse. Their job is to spread the virus while making fun of people. They really don’t care either.

Do you?

The Ebola pandemic of 2014

      Right off the bat you can tell by the title that I’m messing around. You can go ahead and look at the questions if you want but up front there is one thing that I want you to keep in mind. The mortality rate for Ebola is 50% to 90%. They have been working on a vaccine for years.

Ω  Remember Ebola?

Ω  Remember the great Ebola pandemic of 2014?

Ω  Remember the tens of thousands of Americans that died?

Ω  Remember the crashed economy?

Ω  Remember the millions out of work?

Bear with me.

    What did citizen Trump have to say about how President Obama handled the threat of Ebola. Quite a lot. Below are just a fraction of the tweets. A fraction. I have a couple of favorites in the list below. You can go to the twitter archives if you want to read them all. Trump supporters won’t get it. They won’t get it at all. They’ll be enraged at President Obama for totally screwing up how he handled the great Ebola pandemic that didn’t happen.

    Remember the other pandemics? Did they leave a lasting impression on you for the devastation that they caused?

Ω  All the governors are already backing off of the Ebola quarantines. Bad decision that will lead to more mayhem.  Oct. 28^th, 2014

Ω  There is ZERO margin for error on Ebola. Are we confident in Obama when he can’t even make a website for $5 Billion? Oct 24, 2014

Ω  President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf! Oct 23, 2014

Ω  If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa, has Ebola, then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign! Oct 23, 2014

Ω  Obama just appointed an Ebola Czar with zero experience in the medical area and zero experience in infectious disease control. A TOTAL JOKE! Oct 17, 2014

Ω  The Ebola nurse should NEVER have been allowed to fly to Cleveland and (amazing) back again. Nothing works in our once great country anymore Oct 16, 2014

Ω  President Obama has a personal responsibility to visit & embrace all people in the US who contract Ebola! Oct 15, 2014

Ω  If Ebola is so non-contagious, how come an NBC cameraman caught it so quickly while over in West Africa? U.S. is behaving very foolishly! Oct 4, 2014

    Judging from these tweets, by his own standards, Trump has been a complete failure at handling the current pandemic. He should take his own advice and resign.

 Think about this. Really. Think about it.

     What would the country be like right now if instead of the SARS-CoV-2 virus the country had been hit with a virus that had a higher mortality rate? Not even Ebola high. Just higher by say ten percent. A virus with a ten percent mortality rate.

 Spanish Flu Pandemic

    One of the reasons that the Spanish Flu pandemic was so bad in the United States is because the government decided to cover it up because they didn’t want to hurt the war effort. (This would be World War ONE not World War TWO as mentioned by the President.)

    President Trump has been covering up about the current pandemic because he wants to get reelected. Republicans have backed him every step of the way. Everything that they have done or NOT done has made the pandemic worse.

Bring out your dead

    There’s a scene in a Monty Python movie where there’s a cart full of bodies going down the street and the guy is yelling “Bring out your dead!”. If this virus had had a higher mortality rate, people would have been piling bodies in the street. Hospitals and morgues have been so overwhelmed that they have had to use refrigerated trucks to hold the overflow.

Taking one for the team

    Early on the Republican Trump Administration figured that the death toll would hit Democrats harder. Fatal mistake for a lot of people. Why they thought the Trump virus would be partisan is beyond me. With that decision they condemned Trump supporters as well. I wonder if those folks knew that they were taking one for the team. The team being Trump and his swamp cronies.

Denial

    Trump and his supporters are in a continual and evolving state of denial. The body count continues to go up so the conspiracy theory is that hospitals are calling non-COVID-19 deaths as being due to the virus. That it’s still an ongoing hoax being manipulated by media to look worse than it is. I watched a video of a Trump supporter after the Tulsa rally saying that he had lost a friend to COVID-19 and the friend’s son was in the hospital but he still didn’t know what to make of it. He wasn’t wearing a mask. The mask is giving people the virus. It never ends.

The Trump Virus

    Trump and the racists supporting him want to blame this pandemic on the Chinese. (Trump is still calling it the “China Virus”.) But what has happened at this stage is squarely their responsibility. They created this ongoing disaster. They own it. Not only have they seen to it that we will lose so many Americans they are setting the stage for possible solutions to fail. They are already cranking up the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theories blaming everyone but themselves. They are the chaos party. They want the Russians to ‘save’ us.

The man who would be King

    President Trump, with the complete support of the Republican Party, White Supremacists and Evangelical Party, are trying mightily to administer the coup de grace to our form of government and create one in their own image.