Last Friday [October 2, 2020], news hit that U.S. president Donald Trump has been diagnosed with COVID–19. (The above picture is Trump, from last Friday, have been taken by helicopter to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.)
Melania Trump has also received the diagnosis.
Three Republican U.S. senators were also diagnosed: Utah’s Mike Lee, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson and, as he is also on the 2020 schedule for possible re-election, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis.
Add to that list former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
Same with Trump’s counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.
There may be more to come.
Progressives Chat readers are well-aware.
My reaction is that I simply wish that COVID–19 never happened in the first place. I do not want anyone getting it. I certainly never did. So, I am sorry this has happened to anyone. Generally, I am sorry.
I am not surprised.
With an election coming up, four weeks from now, Trump has been rolling the dice on this pandemic crisis with an effort to electorally save himself and possibly eke out a bare re-election. And he basically told the nation’s people it isn’t so bad. That there is overreaction. Now, Trump has it.
Part of the reason why I am not overcome with emotion for Trump and these Republicans—and why I would not feel greatly upset if it were so with Joe Biden and the likewise power players in the Democratic Party—is that they will be taken care of by The People. Both Trump and Biden—and their political parties—have in common making sure The People are not taken care of in this pandemic with Medicare for All. (Now, more than ever before, we need Medicare for All.) So, they are protected. We are not.
I did not timely respond, in the Comments section from last Friday, because I felt no urgency to do so. We are in a period where the presidency of the United States—really, who and what represents in U.S. politics—is at an absolute low. So, I don’t feel compelled to become greatly concerned for them.
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