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Trump Caught his Own Virus
So much winning!
Americans scrambled for foodstuffs, toilet paper, masks, and anything else that might get us through the pandemic. We banded together at appropriate social distance. We tuned in to hear Dr. Fauci explain what this virus was and how we could keep ourselves safe. We home-schooled our children and telecommuted or — in many cases — lost our jobs and faced possible eviction. And Trump? What did he do?
He called it a hoax.
When Obama left office he left a book, an actual book of procedures to follow if a super contagious and deadly disease broke out. In office he had dealt with SARS and Ebola and, being a responsible stand up guy who actually won his elections plural, he wanted to leave something to help the next President in the very likely event that another zoonotic plague broke out.
Oh, but don’t you know, Obama’s black so that detailed book compiled by experts in the fields and tested on multiple would be epidemics is no good. Trump ignored it.
Some Americans agreed with Trump and so they went to his huge and pointless rallies and refused to wear masks and got up in people’s faces. And as a result of their actions more people who might not have caught this deadly virus did. Instead of making the rallies virtual or encouraging social distancing, Trump did the exact…
