October 26, 2020: Trump Administration Insists We Have Turned the Corner on COVID

 

10/26/20: The president declared victory in the fight to contain the coronavirus this weekend.

 

With eight days until the election, he and his minions will now focus on:

 

A)    Infecting each other (See: Mike Pence & Co., 10/25/20).

B)     Bragging about how Trump created the greatest economy in U.S. history, for which he gets every bit of credit.

C)    Whining because that economy is lagging, which is the entire fault of Joe Biden and Antifa.

D)   Insisting we’ve turned the corner on the coronavirus, we just don’t realize it, because the media keeps reporting on all the new cases and an alarming wave of hospitalizations.

E)     And deaths!

 

 

Meanwhile, we learned that on Saturday, we passed the same old corner, and the record for most new cases of coronavirus recorded in one day, in this country, was broken. That “old” record was set this past Friday.

 

The new record:

 

83,851.

 

Several of those new cases were people close to Vice President Pence. Over the weekend, Pence’s chief of staff, a top political advisor, and three other members of his inner circle fell ill.

 

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“We’re not going to control the pandemic.” 

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

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Sunday morning, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows appeared on Jake Tapper’s show on CNN. Tapper wanted to know – since VP Pence had been in close proximity to several people who were infected – why he wasn’t self-quarantining as CDC guidelines say he should.

 

Meadows defended the vice president’s decision to go off campaigning, saying, “actually, he’s working.”

 

For some reason, Meadows dropped Pence in his very next sentence. He switched to bucking up Mr. Trump. “We saw a Middle East peace agreement with Sudan in the Oval Office, that the president engaged in, and for anyone to suggest that the president has been campaigning and not getting things done, all you have to do is look at the facts.”

 

I myself was “looking at the facts” as I watched tape of the show. I wondered why Meadows decided to talk about the president campaigning, and not Pence, since Pence was the one who had just been exposed.

 

Meadows went on to say that CDC guidelines say “essential workers” can keep going to work.

 

So: Pence was at work. While off campaigning?

 

Tapper held a hand across the bottom part of his face, and responded, yes, they can go to work, “if they wear a mask.”

 

 

After all, I thought to myself…you could do both.

 

Meadows grew irate, blaming Tapper for putting information about the spread of the virus on his CNN website! Tapper’s website warned that the virus was spreading even through small family gatherings.

 

“We’re not going to control the pandemic,” Meadows fumed. “We are going to control the fact…”

 

I found myself watching Meadows’ lips move, but thinking that controlling “the fact” wasn’t going to stop the spread.

 

“…that we give vaccines, therapeutics, and other mitigation,” he continued.

 

“Why aren’t we going to control the pandemic? Tapper interjected.

 

“Because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu.” Meadows said animatedly. They went back and forth, with Meadows repeating “the vaccine, etc.,” and Tapper asking why the administration wasn’t doing more to contain it.

 

(After all, I thought to myself…you could do both.)

 

Meadows tried to shift blame to Tapper. And Vice President Biden! “To suggest that we’re going to quarantine all of America, lock down our economy…Joe Biden’s saying that, lock everybody down, we’re going to have, we’re going to have a dark winter, we’re going to have a dark winter…”

 

Tapper noted that that’s what health officials were saying.

 

Meadows retorted that even some CNN reporters who have worn masks “religiously” had contracted COVID-19.

 

In other words, Meadows couldn’t explain why Pence was out on the trail when health guidelines would have him quarantine. Nor did Meadows care to address the poor example Trump continued to set, with his masks-are-not-needed, social-distancing-is-for-sissies campaign rallies.

 

In Trumpistan, if a reporter wore a mask and got sick, that proved to followers of the Orange God, that masks did not work.