Thursday, March 26, 2020

We could have told you back in 2016...

I get 20 times the information from the daily Covid-19 briefings by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York than I do from the president's nightly rant on the same subject as he fiddles and makes false accusations to journalists of Fake News as he pathetically plays the victim while the country burns from the Coronavirus, for which he prepared us not a whit during the wasted 3-month run-up to its devastating arrival at our shores.  This incompetent charlatan is responsible for both the dangerous misinformation believed by his ignorant base and the shocking shortages of necessary medical equipment and garb to deal with the pandemic. 

There are no tests to be had, no medical equipment to be found and a rapidly escalating number of deaths occurring daily with many more coming. This MAGA nation is akin to a third world banana republic in its continuing non-response to this crisis. 

A person whom I know well and who is very sick and quarantined at home in a bedroom with no one permitted entry, received a test on Wednesday of last week. Eight days later, there are still no  results that have been forthcoming. 

This is totally unacceptable and useless as well, this person will either be dead or recovered by the time the result comes in.  Meanwhile this person is self-isolating out of regard for the protection of our community, unlike Republican Senator Dr. Paul Rand at the Capitol who used its gym and pool and dined with other senators in the days between his test and the positive result.

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