Regressing, Again

THE ROLLER COASTER consists in our oft renewed hope that the president will, and has perhaps begun the long and arduous ascent to lucidity, only the fall back down the mountain, in Sisyphus  fashion, back into the normal quagmire of depravity. he simply cannot seem to drain his own internal swamp, let alone the nations's capitol's. He had lately worn a face mask, in public, twice, after months of vain refusal. he had actually admitted that there exists an epidemic, and that something might need to be done about it. then, just the other night, in the wee hours, he got back on twitter tweet. he doesn't drink, so  mark of that tempting excuse. Presumably the twitter masters have considered banning him; petitions have circulated encouraging this. On tweet, he once again hyped the delusion that a malarial treatment, hydroxychloroquine, would cure everyone of Covid 19, that face masks are a hoax, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a snake oil salesman. He can't resist playing to his base, and convincing everyone else, the other sixty five percent, that he is in fact ridden with mental illness. then there was teh Yankee thing. After Dr. Fauci threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington nationals home opener against the Yankees, throwing the ball forty five feet before it tailed off towards the home dug out and rolled gently to a stop, petulant Donny got jealous, and announced that he intended to throw out the first pith at Yankee Stadium August 15, before the Yankees play the Boston Red Sox. Then, he announced that he had to cancel out, because he was too busy fighting the virus with everything at his disposal, including snake oil. Upon questioning, the Yankee's executive brass shoulder shrugged, and admitted no knowledge of having ever invited the president to do any such thing. The president reminds one of a third grader, telling his classmates that his father is an astronaut. Severe case of paranoid social rejection syndrome, obviously. Meanwhile, Sec. Of Edu DeVoss alarms us that if American students do not reenter school buildings in huge numbers, and soon, they will be irreparably damaged, emotionally and intellectually. they wouldn't be. If every student in the U.S. spent this entire school year at home with a computer, nobody would be damaged in any way, all would be well, only nobody would get sick and die from Covid 19, kinda like would happen if everyone would wear a face mask when leaving the house. the simplest solutions are usually the best, the obvious one, but like Churchill said: One can count on the Americans to do the right thing, when they have exhausted all other options.