Tuesday, May 12, 2020

It's all too much

Six Russians being treated for Covid died when their ventilators burst into flames.  The model in question was one sent here in April to "help" with the pandemic.  Russia has now passed Italy and moved into fourth place in overall infections.  Putin's approval rating fell to a historic low of 59%.  Trump dreams of having one that high, although all polls are "fake."

Trump wants Joe Scarborough investigated for murder.  He also wants to change the presidential succession, because he was awake all night in a cold sweat considering the possibility that he and Whatsisname might get sick and die:  "Crazy Nancy would be a total disaster, and the USA will never be a Communist Country!"  Well, that's half right.  Try "hereby ordering" that Ivanka is next in line.  See what happens.

A sewer must have backed up, because Rudolph Giuliani has popped up again, this time predicting that James Comey will be tried for treason and executed.

Unfair!  Trump likes to be photographed in factories because he's still grinding his dentures over that New York Times article about his laziness.  He was all set to visit a place in Pennsylvania that makes personal protective equipment, but he refuses to smear his orange clown makeup with a mask.  They withdrew the invitation to avoid contaminating the place with Katie Miller germs and whatever else makes him sniff and wheeze.  Elon Musk plans to reopen his Tesla plant next week, defying California quarantine rules.  I think I know how he can get some free (bad) publicity.

Our last two stories concern Doctors Without Borders, and there's nothing funny about them.  Gunmen disguised as police murdered sixteen people at their maternity clinic in Kabul, an atrocity that even the Taliban don't want to be associated with.  The organization has also dispatched a team to the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.  Their per capita infection rate is higher than New York's and their national government is as broken as Afghanistan's.  For indigenous people, this pandemic is not very different from the one in 1918-1920, or from the waves of smallpox, measles, tuberculosis and other diseases which wiped out their ancestors.  The Sioux are closing highways to keep outsiders off their land in South Dakota, even as Gov. Kristi "Let 'Em Cut Meat" Noem threatens legal action.  She actually said, "We are strongest when we work together," winning today's Brass Balls With Oak Leaf Cluster.

Eighty-one thousand dead.









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