President Trump said on Thursday night that the country’s “test everybody” approach has “created” cases of the coronavirus in states like Florida and Texas which have seen surges of new infections in recent weeks.
I had a parent who died of complications from Alzheimer’s. Because she’d never had adequate therapy, all the guilt and anger resulting from her abusive childhood was still there even when all the cognitive skills were gone.
With Trump: even as the frontal lobes disintegrate, all the hate and fear and irrational rage are still there.
Interestingly, New York does more testing per capita than any of the states experiencing an explosion in cases and cases have been declining or holding steady for a couple of months
The president has habitually both touted the quality of American testing for COVID-19 and blamed the practice of testing as a way to avoid addressing any personal failures or mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis in the United States which ranks highest worldwide in the number of reported infections.
I once worked with a salty old carpenter and one of his favorite sayings was “There’s no sense in being an idiot iffen you don’t show it” The idioticy is strong with this one.