Lots of people have suffered far more as a result of the pandemic than I have, but that does not mean that COVID-19 has been irrelevant for me or my family, since I am a high-risk septuagenarian. Nor does it mean that I am not greatly offended by the behavior of our president or his administration.
It is one thing for the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to blurt out the obvious white-flag surrender statement that “we’re not going to control the pandemic.” It is yet another for our “devout evangelical” vice president, Mike Pence, to risk transporting the virus from his senior staff cluster to the nation as a whole, potentially endangering the lives of people everywhere as he does the “essential” work of enabling his undeserving boss.
And it is far worse for the president of the United States to conduct what may turn out to be super-spreader rallies in hot spots around the country, chanting “COVID, COVID, COVID” as if the virus were a monster in a fairy tale.
I continue to wonder how decent human beings can watch this kind of behavior and still think Trump and his ilk deserve their vote. But then I remember that many of those who back the president live in the parallel universe created by the unholy marriage of Donald Trump and Fox News.
Michael Knosp
Melrose
Note from KBJ: I'm not the least bit offended by anything President Trump has said or done. I'm proud of his leadership on COVID-19, which is why I voted for him again the other day. Make America great again!
