U.S. President Donald Trump – who could
have been a doctor, if only there was a scrub cap large enough to
accommodate his giant brain – can handle a little virus that has been
spreading dangerously undetected throughout the United States for weeks.
The
President knows that the most important thing to do first and foremost
is to protect the vulnerable – that is, his reputation. While the
elderly and immuno-compromised might be mortally at risk due to COVID-19,
they have no idea what’s it’s like to have a nice Sunday golf outing
ruined Monday by market panic, a massive drop in oil prices and even
more reports of novel coronavirus cases and deaths.
A little sympathy
for the President, please.
Now, in
order to protect a weakened presidential ego, the focus needs to be on
the hard numbers.
Essentially, the fewer the cases reported on American
soil, the better Mr. Trump looks. The best ways to ensure that include
maintaining the criteria for testing impractically and illogically
narrow – to the extent that some patients and even health-care
professionals cannot get tested
following an exposure – as well as musing about keeping a quarantined
ship at sea indefinitely so that the American tally of infected persons
is not affected.
But now that the market is in the toilet, meaning that institutional
denial no longer serves much of a purpose, and now that America’s
inertia is starting to really get embarrassing, Mr. Trump is finally
ready to take on this coronavirus thing. With that, we can rest assured
that President Doctor Trump, who understands this virus better than
anyone, has everything in the U.S. under control. As is his custom, Mr.
Trump will continue to look out for the sick and suffering, just as long
as they exist within his own head.
Read more at: Opinion: No need to panic with President Doctor Trump in control - The Globe and Mail
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