Twisted

March 11, 2020

Dusty : Jo, Bill, it’s coming! It’s headed right for us!

Bill : It’s already here!

This was a terrifying exchange during the movie, “Twister.” Change the names, and you have Trump’s response to the coronavirus except for the fact that Trump denied the coronavirus was heading right for us. While he was obfuscating, bloviating, and lying, health professionals knew the virus was already amongst us. Maybe the virus could have been contained. We will never know. Now we are at the mercy of viral math, and I suspect Trump skipped the class on exponential growth curves.

Now we have an address from the Oval Office that focuses on keeping the coronavirus out of the US by instituting a travel ban on Europe, but, quizzically, not the UK. There was a muddle of economic measures about tax breaks and SBA loans. There was no real discussion about testing where we rank last in the world. That’s right…DFL. Washington is now first in war, first in peace, and last in coronavirus testing. Mr. President, it is already here.