Trump, Stepping Up

AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE, a neighbor kid with whom I played whiffle ball back in the sixties, has a great idea. After decades, we ran into each other on Facebook, and he, like I, sees Donald Trump for the criminal and traitor that he is. The idea? This: President Trump could volunteer to use his various properties, resorts, hotels, what not, as hospitals and recuperation centers for people afflicted with Covid 19! What a wonderful idea, and what a wonderful way for our president to show us the American people just how much he really truly cares for us, as he has ever so sincerely so asserted.Can you imagine that? you can, but only if you have an extremely vivid imagination. Another one of my childhood turned Facebook buddies reminded us that the president is far too busy playing golf at his properties to actually put them to good, magnanimous use. And now, for the bad idea. During times of crisis, we must take the bad with the good, and forge intrepidly forth, in the comfort of our quarantined homes. In such a circumstance, safely sheltered at home, I betook myself to a glance out my living room window,, and there, striding down the quiet street, was a gentleman wearing a face mask. I resisted the temptation to burst upon the scene and tell him that he needn't bother. A cat lay asleep on my lap, and I know well the rules of engagement concerning cat lap napping. In essence, one must not move until one's cat does. Besides, the gentleman was striding along at a very brisk pace, despite the limitations on his air supply. Between him and the closest available human being, me, there must have been an expanse of at least six times sixty feet, well beyond the range of any known viral transmission capability. but, better safe than sorry, as we like to say; he was taking no chances. I can easily imagine that had he been in grade school during the Cuban missile crisis, he would still be crouching beneath his wooden s=desk, in a moldy, abandoned class room, inside a building which is a boarded up, crumbling into a pile of bricks.