Together, Donald Trump and Mike Pence define imbecility — are not four years enough?

© 2020 Peter Free

 

29 April 2020

 

 

The two straws that did it

 

I have been trying to be fair to President Trump and his Band of Malicious Idiots for some time. However, this week did me in.

 

 

First

 

Addressing COVID-19, Toddling Donny Trump spouted off about introducing disinfectants and UV light into the body. Which anyone (who is not an abysmal moron) knows is an agglomeration of cells of vastly different types. Many of which would die, if this happened.

 

The President's ignorance, and his analytical incapacity, were so gargantuan as to surprise even me.

 

 

Then

 

Vice President Mike Pence, head of the COVID-19 task force, followed Trump's televised mindlessness up by visiting Mayo Clinic and blatantly violating its reasonably imposed wear-a-mask policy. On camera.

 

One of Pence's non sequitur responses to criticism afterward, was that he is repeatedly tested for SARS-CoV-2, and he is not sick.

 

Analytically speaking, Pence's response perfectly paralleled our President's fairyland stream of consciousness with regard to disinfectants.

 

Pence forgot (or ignored) that:

 

 

(a) these COVID-19 tests are not especially accurate

 

and, even if they were

 

(b) one can develop signs of infection just minutes or hours after the test event.

 

 

Furthermore, why would you go to a preeminently famous medical facility and violate one their infectious disease policies — for all the world to see and, presumably, emulate?

 

 

The moral? — We Americans seem to like putting evil men into high office — but . . .

 

Couldn't we, for purposes of maintaining a semblance of national dignity, select bad men — who, at least, exude an appearance of functioning mental acuity?