Insane Doofus In Chief

So last night the IDINC, looking and sounding like a hostage video, woodenly read a speech from the teleprompter in which heportrayed the current public health crisis as a foreign invasion, falsely announced that insurance companies had agreed to waive co-pays for treatment, and bizarrely announced a travel ban from all European countries except that one where he owns resorts. Other than that, he contributed nothing to our currently fraught and painful public discourse.The travel ban is ridiculous. The virus is already here. The ban will however have severe economic consequences, which has driven the stock market to give up 100% of its gains since the IDINC took office. Fortunately, the IDINC ' s  statement that he had banned all trade with Europe was later withdrawn. Only humans are barred, unless they happen to be U.S. citizens or legal residents, which presumably means they can ' t possibly be infected because, as the IDINC said from the start, this is a " foreign " virus.In the absence of any meaningful national leadership, it is left to state and local authorities, and private institutions, to decide how to respond. My university has now joined its sister institutions in sending the students away and setting up remote instruction. I ' m not sure I approve of this decision on several grounds, not the least of which is equity. This is a real hardship, indeed it may interrupt the education of those with the least resources. I have an advisee who is from Lesotho. I doub...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs