Publicly and Privately Punting

U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION BETSY DEVOSS, who shows signs of having spent her life within the cloistered confines of a plastic Amway billionaire bubble, and who seems opposed to public education, made a comment even more astonishing than normal for her. To wit: there is no data indicating that fully opening America's public schools to class room instruction this fall would put children as risk. She actually said this even as a deadly epidemic of a highly contagious virus, for which there is no known treatment or cure or vaccine, rages out of control throughout the country, which has already killed nearly a hundred and fifty thousands people, many of them children, and will doubtless kill tens of thousands more, soon. So proceeds the insane saga of the American response to Covid 19, public and private. President called the epidemic a hoax, suggested several snake oil solutions such as hydroxychloroquine and bleach, then stipulated that the virus would voluntarily vanish come warm weather. Millions of Americans gathered together without common sense safety precautions Memorial Day weekend, then again on Independence Day. Most of the country resumed normal social and economic intercourse for the purpose of economic prosperity much too soon, with the approval of misguided political leaders at all levels of government. it almost seems as if we the American people have a national death wish. A thirty year old man was infected by and died of teh virus while and after attending a "Covid party"; he apparently thought the epidemic was a hoax, and that presumably the tens of thousands of confirmed dead people were impostors. Perhaps he paid too much attention to the president. most amazing of all is that everywhere in teh United States local governments are trying to decide whether to require mask wearing in public, rather than simply issuing an order requiring it. Supposedly sand citizens, mostly conservative anti-government libertarian types, are reacting as if thier fundamental constitutional freedoms are being destroyed by face masks. meanwhile,Americans continue to die at a rate far more prodigious than anywhere else in the world. Do we wonder why? If you didn't know better, you might almost think that we deserve all this, Trump, the epidemic, the economic melt down, the whole bit.