12/28/20: Last week, Trump aides realized it looked bad to keep putting out daily schedules that read: “The President has no public events scheduled today.” (As, we saw on November 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 28, and December 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, and 22.)
The new formulation, which means the same – that Trump is doing a whole lot of nothing – is only slightly better. For December 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, the White House release reads: “During the Holiday season, President Trump will continue to work tirelessly for the American People. His schedule includes many meetings and calls.”
Yes. TIRELESSLY!
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The death toll from the coronavirus will soon
surpass the toll from all flus in the last ten years. This was never “just a
flu.”
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This is quite amusing, since at a 9:32 this morning, the president headed for his golf course in West Palm Beach again.
There he squeezed in Round #320 since taking office, having sworn while a
candidate in 2016 that he’d never take time off from working for the American
people, because, really, all he liked to do was work, work, work. And
occasionally boink a porn star or some other female he was not married to at
the time he was married to some other female, such as current First Lady Melania
Trump.
The coronavirus numbers remain grim, although Lame Duck Don no longer cares. On Christmas Eve, the country hit a high for COVID hospitalizations, with 120,151 sufferers filling beds. There has been a slight decline since, which could be a ray of hope. Or it may be a function of people not wanting to go to the hospital during the holidays, and health agencies being closed and not reporting all the numbers in recent days.
Hopefully, with vaccines coming online, we’re seeing the start of a downward trend. Deaths from the coronavirus reported in recent days:
12/24: 2,804
12/25: 1,692
12/26: 1,309
12/27:
1,345
As of 12/27, then, the toll for December is 63,260 American dead. That tops our losses during the Vietnam War.
If we consider how often the president and his
right-wing media enablers said, “Don’t worry, this is just a flu,” that would mean
the December toll would be greater than losses during any of the flu seasons in
the last ten years. With CDC reporting 332,246 deaths, all
told, loss of life from this virus will undoubtedly surpass the combined total
of flu deaths in the U.S. in the previous decade.
(Total known and/or estimated deaths in the last ten U.S. flu
seasons: 359,000.)
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