The Interregnum

 We have two and a half months left in Trumpistan. There is some thought he will burn the whole country down in the time he has left. Maybe.

We have to remember that he is a fundamentally lazy man. Son of a bitch was on the golf course when they called the election. That's perfect. The people around him are also stupid and lazy, as witnessed by the fustercluck of a news conference they called yesterday. 

There is no doubt that Trump's rhetoric will be a combination of shrill, baseless allegations of fraud to protect his wee ego, but it will also be a litany of whiny complaints.

Meanwhile, we are entering a world of hurt with Covid. My state has done a pretty good job since the spring in containing the spread of the virus. We just went "red" again. While therapeutics have made Covid much more survivable, we are adding tens of thousands of cases every day. Even with a low death rate, we are going to see a massive spike in deaths in about a week or two. Europe is seeing the same explosion in cases.

Public health officials warned us about this. They said the fall and early winter were going to be bad, and it looks like we are in for a bad time. The new therapies will help and testing in some places is going well. I've been tested five times since mid-September. We have miraculously kept the virus off campus so far, and kids and staff have been amazing about keeping masks on, despite the drudgery of it all. It's no fun, or at least not as fun as they deserve. Still, it's working.

Biden has announced a task force to coordinate efforts to stop the virus. They will effectively be a "shadow government" creating expectations for what will happen in January. Some states will benefit from better guidance, but others will not because it seems clear we have politicized the public health measures needed to clamp down on this sickness. We will have 300,000 dead Americans by Christmas. That's more than died of combat wounds in any war America fought. 

Trump - having been rejected by American voters - will simply slink off to his golf resorts and Twitter feed and let Americans die.