3/18/20: Dr. Zero (a.k.a. President Trump) coughed up another colossal lie
yesterday. After spending weeks insisting that the coronavirus was no big deal – and the media
and the Democrats were terrible because they said it was – he changed his
tune on Tuesday. He went from humming “Pop Goes the Weasel” to trying to sing
opera. And he has no talent for opera.
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“This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
President Trump
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“This is a pandemic,” he told reporters on Tuesday. They already knew that. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” In other words, Dr. Zero was claiming he was way ahead of everyone else.
Yet, we know, if we are not nincompoops, that it was three weeks ago that Dr. Zero earned his sobriquet. It was then he predicted that in a “couple of days,” the U.S. would see cases of the virus drop to zero.
As of this evening, the United States has 7,769 confirmed cases. As testing finally ramps up, that number will go higher.
Trump’s
prediction of “zero” cases was wildly off target, and not the prediction a man
who knew a pandemic was coming (which he now says he knew) would have made.
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WITH
EACH PASSING MINUTE, the economic damage piles higher. The airline industry is running
empty planes. Restaurants have chairs piled atop tables and closed signs on front
doors. Movie theaters are dark. No popcorn is popped. No sodas are poured. No
Milk Duds (Mr. Blogger’s go-to movie snack) are chewed and stuck to patrons’ teeth.
ESPN is showing reruns of old college basketball games. Except for bull riding
that’s about all they’ve got to offer. Schools in 39 states are closed. An
estimated 41.7 million students are stuck at home, as
are millions of parents who would normally be at work. On Tuesday, Treasury
Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned GOP lawmakers that short of strong federal intervention,
unemployment could spike to 20 percent.
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