Sunday, November 15, 2020

trumpian Denial of COVID-19 Is Dooming, Will Doom Us

I saw this on Twitter this morning.



This is not only happening in South Dakota but also North Dakota, and Montana, and Iowa, and Wisconsin, and Illinois, and Ohio, and Florida, and...

It's happening in every state, at some level, where there's enough trump-worshipping denialists who've been told by their media overlords that COVID-19 is a Chinese-backed Socialist plot, that it's a hoax pushed by libruls to take our freedoms, that oh heavens if they do get it there's a miracle cure that trump himself took that's readily available at some rural underfunded clinic instead of a high-tech military hospital.

It doesn't occur to the trumpian "true believers" that trump intentionally refuses to take an active effort to control the pandemic's spread, they don't hear you when you point out how trump himself openly declared "I'm not taking any responsibility at all" to mandate nationwide health guides and public safety rules.

And because of trump's failures at leadership - his active avoidance of it - we are now facing a massive upward spike of COVID positive infections across the entire nation, here have John Cole at Balloon Juice share a few words ("What the Fuck Is WRONG With People") on this (complete with links to charts):


We’re gonna blast past 200k (cases daily) before we even get to Thanksgiving. If I were God emperor, I would lock everyone down, issue mask mandates, and mount speakers every 100 yards playing this nonstop until people didn’t want to leave the fucking house...

I laugh-cried at the “if people don’t learn” part. The most American thing in the world is NEVER FUCKING LEARNING ANYTHING EVER.

The worst thing about this is that Trump’s followers are literally a cult. Anything he says or does they mindlessly repeat and replicate. If that motherfucker would just have asked his followers to wear a fucking mask we wouldn’t be in half the mess we are in right now.

We're well past the point of hospitals being overwhelmed. Our health care workers - nurses especially - are threatening national strikes to force the government to do SOMETHING to put the nation back on lockdown like we did in March-April. But we're running into the seasonal holidays - when people want to gather families for Thanksgiving, when they feel the need to go Christmas shopping in-person because GODDAMMIT that's what Black Fridays are for - the most God-awful worst time to try and impose any lockdown at all.

trump meanwhile is sulking and throwing hissy fits about Biden's popular vote and Electoral College win, still screaming about it being stolen even as his lawyers keep failing to prove ANY kind of voter fraud happened at all. trump will refuse to do anything to help a nation he's likely viewing as having betrayed him. The Pandemic Response team that's supposed to be run by VP Pence hasn't even done anything in two weeks.

We are literally facing a winter of chaos and calamity, and while we may have a calmer future promised to us with Biden entering the Presidency in January, between then and now we are doomed to suffer at trump's whims.

Gods help us.

1 comment:

dinthebeast said...

Supposedly 40% of those surveyed said they were gathering their families for Thanksgiving dinner.
By Christmas we'll be at a 9-11's worth of dead folks every day.
Even if we win both runoffs in Georgia, Joe Manchin has already said that he won't vote for anything not Republican approved.
It's gonna be a hard winter.
We can make it, or most of us can.
What's going on with covid right now should be the reason no Republican can get elected to anything, anywhere for a generation, but it won't.
I have to wonder what it would take to drive Republican voters away from them if this isn't enough.

-Doug in Sugar Pine