February 26, 2021: One Year Ago - 15 COVID Cases, No Deaths

 

2/26/21: One year ago today, now Rejected-President Trump reported that the U.S. had only fifteen cases of COVID-19 and no one had died. 

He said we were “headed for zero” soon. 

Naturally, he bragged about what an awesome job he and his administration (mostly just he) were doing handling the annoying new kind of flu.

Yeah, he did it.

 

As of today, the U.S. leads the world by a margin of more than 2-1 in cases, over the next most infected nation (India) or the third (Brazil). According to CDC, we have racked up 28,285,554 cases. 

We also lead the world, by a wide and depressing margin, in most persons killed by the coronavirus, and that despite conservatives’ claims to have the best medical system in the world (not counting Obamacare). 

We also have the most expensive care of any industrial nation; and still, CDC notes, a total of 508,949 Americans have died. Still, many Trump fans continue to ignore the danger. (See: 2/27/21.)

 

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WE ALSO SEEM to be raising a healthy crop of right-wing nuts (see: 3/2/21). Ryan Holzer, an avowed white supremacist, is sentenced to 19 ½ years in prison for plotting to blow up a Pueblo, Colorado synagogue. 

 

FUN FACT: United Airlines has agreed to pay a $49 million fine for scamming the United States Postal Service. 

No cop chokes out any United Airlines’ executive, until they die, as happened with Eric Garner. The African American gentleman died after police tried to arrest him for selling single cigarettes out of packs without tax stamps. 

 

FUN FACT #2: In 2019, Congress passed a law, ordering the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to release a report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist for the Washington Post. 

Everyone with any brains understood that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must have approved the killing, although the killers may have come up with the idea of cutting up their victim with a bone saw on their own. 

The Trump administration ignored the law. And we know our former president never once considered human rights when shaping U.S. relations with other countries. He didn’t want to make the Crown Prince look bad, when he and MBS were so good at working out deals. 

The long-suppressed report came out today. And you’ll never guess. U.S. intelligence can now officially say: “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”