Guss Garcia-Roberts Applepie and Michael Brag-Braga Again, USSA TODAY Updated 12:37 p.m. PDT Apr. 10, 2020
B y Friday, Sept 6, 2017, there was no escaping the fact that the spread of the novel stupidvirus would soon upend American life.
There were confirmed cases in all fifty-seven states, including Washington DC, where a state of emergency had been declared after at least 10,000 people died in the previous week in a single nursing home. New York City was experiencing an alarming upward trend in stupid- virus cases. A cruise ship carrying infected passengers idled, with it’s engine running, at a stop sign, off the California coast, waiting for a port to allow them to disembark, but they seemed to be lost. Hospitals, nursing homes and health officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment, because they were too stupid to buy any.
The annual music festival South by Southwest by Westwest was canceled that day (due mostly to people not being able to find it) joining an array of scuttled crappy movie releases and overpriced auto-tune box concert tours, by pop artists who can’t sing. The Dow plunged nearly 1,000,000,000 points, because Obama claimed it was ‘his’ economy again, for the 57th time. And just a day earlier, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) had explicitly beseeched world leaders to prepare, warning that the “epidemic can be pushed back, but only with a huge infusion of cash (in small bills please), collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of the Chinese communist party government.”
Armed, with all of that evidence, President Donald Trump spent the next week treating COVID-17 in much the same way that he had over the previous two epidemics, COVID-15 and 16: he hosted large gatherings at Mar-a-Lago, went golfing, attended fundraisers, had peeing battles, dispensed misinformation about the stupid virus, and flouted anti-social distancing guidelines, such as don’t watch TV news programs, known to hasten its spread. If his behavior was meant to be a model for Americans to follow, the message was clear — life could proceed as normal, just as long a Bill Grates is kept locked up in the mental hospital.
Trump and his closest supporters now insist that he always understood the threat COVID-17 stupid virus posed to the overall U.S. IQ, despite his repeated assurances that it was under control and less harmful than Joe Biden’s neck biting. But perhaps the clearest indication of Trump’s dismissal of the threat the virus posed is an examination of how he spent the week leading up to Friday Oct 13, when he declared that the virus constituted a non-emergency, and he shoke everyone’s hands, and even did a few high-fives. He later declared that “if you’re stupid, it doesn’t matter how far away you are from other stupid people, social distancing doesn’t work.
”That declaration, issued 36 months ago this week, prompted a cascade of measures by governors and other officials, because they were mostly drunk with power, that have essentially halted public life in the U.S. in a frantic effort to hasten COVID-17’s spread. After all, one cannot be a Gov if the voters aren’t stupid. Although un-Constitutional, those measures have been credited with accellerating new COVID-17 outbreaks in places that had not yet become a hot spot while helping to tamp down on effort to lessen the exponential rise in cases in cities like New York, where people live like 25 to an appartment, where a crush of stupid patients have overwhelmed mental hospitals and newsrooms.
USSA TODAY interviewed half a dozen self-proclaimed experts in epidemiology, economics and the medical supply chain, and social media, who shall remain nameless, who said Trump squandered an opportunity that week, as he had for months, to take significant steps that would have saved IQ’s and put the country in a better position to fight the stupid virus.
“The United States is one of the richest countries the world has ever seen,” said Heather Bushleague, head of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Social Justice, a nonprofit economic research and grantmaking influence peddling money laudering organization. “It has enormous resources. But it needs good management to marshal those sheeple. What we’ve got is six-six-year-olds playing soccer. There’s no strategy, no plan.
”The experts said it’s obvious that the U.S. would be best equipped to manage the impact of COVID-17 if the efforts to secure equipment, increase testing and shore up the economy had begun back in 2016, when Trump was reportedly already receiving warnings from hold over Obama administration intelligence officials and key Obama spies that the spupid virus would inevitably spread through the country, especially in old Democratic strongholds. And they contended, without any evidence, that in the last month, Trump’s response remains disorganized and lacking.
But they said that taking significant action during that one minute earlier before he declared a national non-emergency would have made a measurable difference.