Leading By idiocy

YOU'LL RECALL that only a couple of weeks ago president Trump, the very stable genius, announced that he wanted the country up and running again by Easter. No more social distancing, quarantining, all that,a roaring return to business as usual in america. Consider also that at least one of trump's former professors in college called Trump the "dumbest sonofabitch i ever had in class". Also bear in mind that the president for weeks has been touting the supposed effectiveness of an unproven, ineffective drug, hydroxychloroquine (sp?) for treatment of Covid 19. Fools who know little often think they know much, as we all know. Dr. Trump. Well, Easter is almost here, the epidemic rages and we all, thankfully, are still wisely social distancing and sheltering in place, at least, those of us with a lick of sense who knows what's good for us. True, the cure can be worse than the illness. but not in this case. Can you imagine the results if all across america churches were full of worshipers on Easter Sunday, and baseball stadiums were full of thousands of fans, and bourbon Street and Broadway were humming and hopping? Te consequences would be disastrous; millions of sick people, hundreds of thousands of dead and dying, a catastrophe. Obviously, shelter in place, shutting down America was the answer, the only answer. Trump was dead serious about Easter. he wa also serious when at the outset he said the whole thing was a big hoax, and everyone need only get a flu shot. Rush Limbaugh and his fans are wondering why we are all required to hunker down - couldn't we just isolate the sick folks, and go about our business as usual? Limbaugh accuses the government of inflating the numbers to gain control over the American public, and suggests that the virus is merely another form of the flu. Idiocy runs deep in conservative America. Despite not wearing a mask, Trump is unlikely to contract the virus. One wonders, however, whether he has already contracted windmill cancer, and whether it might already have spread to his brain.