Exercising Judgment

THE LOCAL SENIOR CENTER plans to reopen May 8, a dubious decision at best, premature, made by an administration with a history of dubious decisions, decisions seemingly more intended to protect the job security of the administrators than to promote the well being of the center. My experience with administrators throughout my professional career has convinced me that self interest underlies most administrator's behavior. They'll have to find someone besides me to lead the pledge and the prayer. Rather than immerse myself in a room full of virus vulnerable elderly, I'll sneak in, bemaksed, grab lunch to go, maybe wave and bump a few elbows, then get out of dodge. The seniors most at risk are those who support the actions of the lunatic president, Donald Trump. Nationwide, trump's approval rating among all demographics has declined, including among seniors, who at the moment would elect BIden. Most Americans would gladly elect any newly mutated organism over Trump. The latest example of presidential lunacy? The president now claims that the virus was deliberately manufactured in a Chinese lab. What a wonderful way to foster international cooperation and to bring comfort to a troubled world. As always, no evidence exists for this idiotic contention. All evidence indicates the exact opposite, that the virus was naturally occurring, from animal to human. Every intelligence gathering agency, every scientist affirms this, a naturally occurring Covid 19. As always, the moronic, narcissistic American president ignores the experts, and replaces their wisdom with his personal brand of idiocy. his supporters, the sycophants who adoringly follow the criminal traitorous leader, remain on board with Trump's criminality and recklessness, to their eternal discredit. The right wing MAGA mob, hateful as always, racist, protesting in the streets without masks or concern for the well being of others, wanting only to enhance their financial fortunes. Either Trump supporters should be quarantined for the safety of the sane until they mercifully expire, or the rest of us should so social distance ourselves from them as to eliminate their influence on society, entirely. The vulnerable elderly are far more at risk from Trump and his gang than from any virus.