Trump Minimizes his COVID Experience

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist 

Yesterday Donald Trump decided that he had wasted enough of the campaign season in the hospital and declared it was time to return to the White House.  By most accounts he was still contagious and the threat to his personal health had not passed, but Trump was ready to travel, and his doctors quickly concurred with their patient's insistent demands to go home.

That premature dismissal along with the threats that it posed to the public health and safety as well as to Trump's own health was, by itself, bad enough, but Trump chose to make his latest fiasco even messier by announcing his imminent departure from the hospital in a tweet - and, while he was at it, minimizing the threat of COVID in the same tweet.  Not only was he recovering like the healthy horse that he was, thank you very much, but this entire COVID thing was just so much noise and distraction, and Americans should not be overly concerned.   Trump tweeted:

"I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"

Trump failed to mention that not all of the "really great drugs" that he was given are available to the general public, or that unlike some Americans who were crammed into hospital hallways for treatment of COVID, he was lounging in the "presidential suite" at Walter Reed - and being chauffeured around the neighborhood in a an armored SUV.

He also did not mention the 210,000 Americans who have already died from COVID, people whose lives were dominated, and ultimately terminated, by COVID. 

A normal human would have been thankful for his own recovery and then made an effort to help others learn from his experience. A normal human would have warned against complacency in the face of a deadly disease and encouraged his fellow Americans to socially distance and wear face masks when they have to be in public. A normal human would have acknowledged the millions of others who have been infected - many of whom endured extreme medical trauma as they fought to recover - and the 210,000 Americans who have died as a result of this disease.

A normal human would not have shrugged off the deadliest worldwide pandemic of the last hundred years.

But of course Donald Trump is not a normal human, nor has he ever aspired to be one.