I know the following statement is a big 'No duh,' but excuse me for never having been here before. Pandemics suck.
In 6 months we're going to have more people in the US die from COVID-19 than the number of soldiers killed in WWI. Think about that for a second. Think about every community who has a memorial in place for the lives lost in 'The Great War.' That war, like the the Civil War and WWII, shook this country so much every small town went out of their way to remember the people they lost, yet today most people insulate themselves from the Corona Virus dead via Tiger King.
CoronaVirus is a real nasty virus. Depending on how we coordinate our adjustments in the next two months, we could see a far deadlier 2nd wave; an explosion of deaths doubling or even tripling the initial body count. At the end of the day, human life should matter most of all, but for a shocking amount of people it doesn't.
Trump did not cause Corona Virus, but his Administration's INSANE handling of this crisis has done unfathomable damage. We're the worst county on the planet for number of people killed and the number of cases total. My friends who live overseas refer to the US as a third world country now, saddled with a government incapable of taking care of its own citizens.
To be fair, the executives running the medical industry in America have made US medicine far less capable of taking care of the countries 330 million people. They've turned to a business model geared to supplying healthcare to the people with the biggest bank accounts, streamlining every other medical service into limited use. It's a system only focused on what's in front of the care giver at that given moment, a system of bare minimal care at an extraordinary cost. This pandemic is only exposing the problems created by executives more concerned about their third vacation homes, as US medicine has become for profit only.
This was the worst thing that could ever happen to America with a guy like Trump in office. A crisis like Corona Virus demands empathy, a trait Trump is incapable of delivering. This is a man who only cares about his image. He tries to dismiss the virus. He tries to bully the virus. He tries to make the virus disappear, and yet (shockingly to no one) the virus isn't listening to him. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICANS DYING!!! He only cares about getting his stock market bragging rights back and holding more of his Trump rallies, something he'd already done if not for staff members telling him no way.
Then there are the Trump supporters. Screaming in the face of Governors who are trying to save their citizens. Screaming the faces of scientists who dare tell them the virus won't just go away, and that ingesting household cleaning supplies is not a safe option. Screaming in the faces of doctors and nurses because they feel they're part of some massive conspiracy to cost Trump the election. Screaming in the faces of people who want to social distance or wear a face mask, accusing them of also being part of the conspiracy against their beloved leader. And dismissing the dead, as long as it's someone else's mother or father, grand mother or grandfather, brother or sister, aunt or uncle, neighbor or friend. "How dare they die just to make Trump look bad."
The irony for Trump is how he could've saved his presidency by showing even the slightest bit of competency, by not getting jealous of all the media attention Corona Virus was getting. If he would've been just passible in this crisis, the US death count would be dramatically less, people would feel safer, and he sure wouldn't have to encourage a near suicide death cult like mentality in his followers to feel better about himself (to the horror of the rest of us).
This is sad. This is a freaking mess. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.
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