The Post makes a solid argument for ending the rampaging pandemic that is burning through parts of the country: throw everything at it for two months. We had a faculty meeting last night and our school doctor - who is not be nature an optimist about things like this - was quite optimistic that we could have a safe re-opening of school...if everything complied with the three requirements: masks, distancing and hand washing.
That's it. That's the whole shebang. That's what it would take to get life back to normal like the rest of the developed world. We would still have outbreaks - like South Korea and Germany are having. But they could be managed if they were small and sporadic. We are clearly getting better at treating the disease, but the best cure is prevention and we know how to prevent it.
The problem - of course - is the rampant anti-intellectualism that defines the modern GOP. Rather than work with, elevate and support medical professionals, they are feeding the fever swamps of Covid-denial and conspiracy theories. Trump's entire self-interest would be to create a national masking policy. If he wants to get re-elected, he should've committed to that months ago.
He won't. He can't. And millions of dain bramaged Foxbots will follow his every word.
Trump is a broken, hollow shell of a man without the brains God gave a Labrador Retriever. That makes him the perfect avatar for tens of millions of Americans.
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