The Coronavirus Conflagration: A Grim Milestone

The catastrophic calculus of the coronavirus pandemic continues to count upward.

Yesterday, at least 150,000 people in the United States have now died of the coronavirus. 

It is described as a "grim milestone". 

What it is not is a grim total. This situation is going to get worse and more people are going to get sick and more people are going to die. There will be more milestones to come with an increasing gradient of grimness. 

So much illness and death from a virus that Donald Trump once dismissed as a fake panic created by Democrats. 

Trump even now thinks this whole pandemic thing is a overblown and if we stopped testing, we'll stop finding coronavirus cases so the numbers of those with COVID 19 and those who have died from it will go down. Not identifying the disease does not make the disease go away. But Trump isn't looking at the lives of people impacted by the 
coronavirus but at the numbers that make him look bad.  

We now have over 150,000 dead from a virus that Donald Trump once said that the number of cases would be close to zero within days. 

Here in the sweltering heat of July the death toll mounts from a virus that Donald Trump said would go away in April when the weather got warmer.  

While Americans grapple with feelings of dread as the bodies pile up, Donald Trump is worried about other things.

His administration is rolling back housing desegregation measures. Never mind thousands of Americans, out of work due to the economic shutdowns caused by the pandemic, are facing evictions. 

Donald Trump is more obsessed with maintaining 
monuments and symbols honoring the Confederacy while Americans struggle to keep the lights on and food on the table while COVID-19 ravages our nation.  

Trump's answer to demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice is to send his own version of the god damned Gestapo, squads of heavily armed and unidentified federal officials to violently strike at protestors who are wearing masks to help protect themselves from the coronavirus pandemic as they find themselves shrouded in clouds of tear gas. 

The coronavirus pandemic continues its conflagrations across the United States. Hospitals are stressed, ICUs are maxed out and the morgues are full. And Donald Trump fiddles while America burns. 

Of course Trump thinks he's doing a great job. Since COVID-19 hasn't killed his fat ass already, then Trump thinks the problem is solved so everybody get back to work and get back to school. 

The problem is NOT solved. Everything anyone with a modicum of sense and wisdom was worried about back in March is still there to be worried about. 

Anyone with a modicum of sense and wisdom should be very afraid and very worried right now.  

No one ever accused Donald Trump of having a modicum of sense or wisdom.  

And so the catastrophic calculus of the coronavirus pandemic continues to count higher and higher.