How we are perceiving and treating Covid-19 has been changing and evolving. First it was no, masks did not help. Then by June 2020, yes, we said, masks do help. That includes the World Health Organization or the WHO, saying as late as the end of March that masks do not help. And even saying today that aerosol infection is not significant. We shall see.
This poem is a snapshot from June 8 2020 when the USA had exceeded 100,000 deaths from Covid, due to our paralyzed President and his scientific ignorance interfering with our nationwide response. Not helping procure and produce protective gear and adequate testing supplies for our nation. Which now has over 215,000 deaths due to Covid. Our President afflicted himself. Still infectious as far as we know. Irresponsibly going back to the White House to endanger the people who work there. A host of his staff have been stricken by the disease. The midwest is peaking with new cases and deaths.
It should be obvious now what should be done. But Trump cannot admit to any mistakes. His father and his mafioso lawyer Roy Cohn mentored him never to do that. Which doesn't conjoin well with science. Where theories are made, studies are done, assumptions must be revised and cast anew. But not if Donald Trump has anything to say about it. Or lie about it. In the death throes of his last weeks as President.
Or can he weasel his way out of a loss by pulling out all the stops of deviousness and dirty play? While another 100,000 or more Americans will die before another President can come to the USA's rescue?
Not a pretty picture.
But this is what it looked like to me on June 8th 2020 . . .
