America Slides into Madness
Britni predicts: Day Three
This Coronavirus thing is getting a little weird. Out of Arizona we hear of a fresh death related to the pandemic, but this time from a couple self-administering a fish tank cleaning solution in the mistaken belief that it would protect them from infection. Thirty minutes later they were calling the emergency room.
The husband died at the hospital, his widow put into intensive care.
Where did they get such astonishingly poor medical advice from?
Seems that out of the White House, Don Trump suggested that an anti-malarial drug — chloroquine — could cure Covid-19. A miraculous drug, available instantly, that would preserve American lives.
Looking at their aquarium cleaner, the Arizona couple noticed that the active ingredient was chloroquine phosphate. “Hey, that’s the stuff,” they thought, poured some into soda and quaffed down their miracle cure for a disease they hadn’t even contracted.
War? Huh! What is it good for?
The image of a war against the pandemic is a popular one. Don Trump has declared himself a wartime president, and again out of the West — Texas this time — the state’s Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has claimed that the very measures that mitigate the spread of the disease are working against the values of the American people.
What were they fighting for in World War II, he wonders? Shutting down the economy is not the way to run a battle campaign.
My messages is that let’s get back to work, let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it and those of us who are 70+, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country. — Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick is not among the ranks of the septuagenarians he is willing to sacrifice for the greater good. Not until his birthday next week. Perhaps his tune will change by then.
Getting tired of this thing
Of course, the head of state is a reliable source of national-level advice in a time of crisis. Roosevelt led his country through the Great Depression and World War II with regular “fireside chats”.
Don Trump has resumed press conferences, possibly because he can’t hold campaign rallies for the duration of the crisis, and his rambling words of direction and devotion are an inspiration to the nation and a terror to the wise.
Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. — Don Trump
Apparently he was worried that Americans would suicide in numbers greater than those caused by Covid-19 unless the growing list of restrictions was lifted in weeks rather than months and they could get back to building the economy up in time for the elections in November.
In unrelated news, the Dow Jones has crashed again, this time to a level lower than the day Trump was sworn into office. Don Trump has been pinning his hopes of re-election on a healthy economy, and he fears that if it’s all going downhill, the voters may blame him for leading the country backwards.
Which makes his thoughts of suicide all the more intriguing.
National values slip as the virus numbers rise
Trump may think that the nation’s true worth is measured in dollars rather than people, but either way you look at it, both are reducing.
Day Three of my five-day prediction that the number of American infections would reach China’s sees the curve rising higher.
China’s numbers are going up by a few dozen or so each day. America’s total is rising by more than ten thousand.
Although more and more states are implementing isolation and lockdown regimes, I stress that the numbers of those infected cannot reflect these measures for a week. They will continue to rise, because of the incubation period between transmission and symptoms developing.
But America’s response to Covid-19 is fragmentary, contradictory, and confusing. With the regime head insisting that this will all be over in a few weeks, and a miracle cure already on the shelves, I really do fear for America, and my American friends.
Britni
Britni Pepper writes for Kindle Direct Publishing. She runs a blog where she reviews erotica, and rambles on about this and that. She may be reached on Twitter and Facebook.
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