At a tour of a face mask factory, Donald Trump of course did not wear a face mask although the Honeywell company policy is that all employees must wear a face mask. All the executives who guided Trump on the tour had been tested for Covid-19. An employee of the factory who likely did not have the option to be tested as well, blared the song, Live and Let Die. Trump was oblivious to the irony pointing at the mask like a zombie sycophant. The week prior, Vice President Mike Pence didn’t wear a face mask at the Mayo Clinic which has a strict policy that anyone in the facility must wear a mask. When asked why he did not wear a mask Pence admitted that he and anyone around him is always tested for Covid-19.
As Trump pushes to send workers back out in the midst of the pandemic, he is secure in the notion that he will remain safe because he is tested often while everyday Americans are not being tested. His new press secretary dismissed the idea of testing for everyone. As she said, “If we tested every single American at this moment, we would have to re-test them an hour later, and an hour later after that, because at any moment you could theoretically contract this virus, so the notion that everyone needs to be tested is simply nonsensical.” So Trump is tested often as are the people around him while you frankly are shit out of luck.
This week, Trump’s valet and Pence’s Press Secretary tested positive for the virus. The president had a fit that his staff had allowed the virus to get so close to him while he shakes hands with everyone he meets. The president and Vice president were re-tested and came up negative. Since members of the president’s staff were infected, the entire staff should be quarantining, but the president has decided he is above that mandate. He is traveling the country as usual looking for photo opportunities at things like the Honeywell face mask factory.
Trump has it “all under control.” He will open the economy at any cost and that cost is the deaths of thousands of more Americans. He and his cronies will be isolated and safe while he sends the working class to their deaths. There is no plan to safely open the economy. He wants to live while you die. Trump will cause mass preventable deaths. The only goal of this country should be to beat the virus. His only goal up until now seemed to be to build a wall and he is only able to build a wall of death.
He disbanded the Covid-19 task Force because he lost interest in it, but then decided to keep it since it was so popular. We are on the brink of mass genocide because our president is not able to listen to experts and is only concerned with his ratings. Someone should explain to him that his ratings will drop as people die. As he put it, “The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors.” This coming from a man who dodged the draft. You are expendable as Trump wants to fire up the economy safely from his bunker in the White House.
Other countries like New Zealand, and South Korea, have suppressed their Covid-19 outbreaks acted early, testing aggressively while isolating cases, and tracing their contacts. South Korea had its first case the same day as America. Here over 25,000 new cases are identified each day while there only 10 new cases are found each day. We are living a nightmare fueled by incompetence and indifference. The rich will self isolate to survive while the middle class and poor are cannon fodder for the economy.