For months, Trump has been telling us we’ve “turned the corner” on COVID-19, even as America continues to lead the world in death.
And things are getting worse.
According to Johns Hopkins, 3,049 Americans died on Wednesday, meaning that the coronavirus killed more Americans on December 9, 2020 than died in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
The death toll, according to Johns Hopkins is nearly 290,000.
Worldometers puts it even higher, at nearly 297,000. (Only eight countries have more than 50,000 deaths. Only four have more than 100,000 deaths. Only one, the USA, has more than 200,000, soon to be 300,000, deaths.)
Trump also told us the Fake News media was using “Covid, Covid, Covid” to attack him politically and that the pandemic coverage would disappear after the election as quickly as he once told us the virus would.
He’s doing his best, of course, to keep his Covid, Covid, Covid failure out of the news with his incessant assault on the election results.
Today he will be hosting 17 Attorneys General who have shamelessly supported a “far-fetched” lawsuit to throw out the election result, even after Biden’s massive victory has now been certified by all 50 states and Washington DC.
Trump’s attempt to distract from his colossal pandemic failure has been hampered, of course, by the hospitalization of his mouth-breathing personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with COVID-19, followed by the news that his other lawyer Jenna Ellis also tested positive shortly after partying with senior White House staffers at another of Trump’s indoor, mask-free “Super Spreader” Christmas events.
The US death toll is outrageously high—and our economic crisis is far worse than it needs be—because of Trump’s failed leadership, his dismissal of science, his refusal to manufacture the necessary PPE, his relentless corruption as stimulus money was being handed out, and his mockery of masks, even as dozens of countries—from large Asian economies to the world’s poorest countries—controlled the virus with cheap face coverings.
If “pro-life” Americans wanted to actually save lives, the guidelines for the past many months have been simple and easy to follow: social distancing, wash your hands, wear a mask.
But as author Don Winslow highlighted on Twitter recently, the Trump cult has been proudly—and fearlessly—willing to spread the Trump Virus all year long. But only up to the point when they catch it themselves and threaten the lives of their own at-risk family members:
The vaccine may be coming, but there’s still no cure for stupidity.
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