Almost Nothing
By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
Tags: Politics, Trump, Pandemic, Election 2020, Covid 19

Almost Nothing

Covid Covid Covid

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The countdown to the election, only three days away. We’re not as naive as we were in 2016 when we thought this couldn’t happen here. It’s looking good for Biden in the polls, but when I mentioned this to my son, he almost shouts at me. “Don’t say that!” He’s afraid I’ll jinx it. That’s what we thought last time. When we all thought that fool didn’t have a chance in these, our United States of America.

We joke again about what we’ll do if he’s elected for another term but really, we know we’re not going anywhere. We can’t afford to move out of the country, and even without a pandemic, who wants us, really? Our collective reputation has been sullied. We are a dangerous mob of angry gun-toting rebels. We are socialists. Communists. Right wing conspiracy theorists. Left wing Libtards. We are a nation divided by our campaign signs and our open carry permits.

My son has more options than many of us. He’s bought a camper and can go off the grid for a while; make a living fixing things.

Donald Trump Junior said in his misguided and heartless statement the deaths from the corona virus are “Almost nothing.” There are 229,000 dead almost nothings. 971 almost nothing deaths from the virus on the very day Don Jr. spews his vitriolic diatribe.

Covid, Covid, Covid. At his super-spreader rally today the POTUS mocks a Fox News journalist for wearing a mask. Maybe he’s flirting with her in his own creepy way. Maybe she thinks it’s funny. It’s Laura Ingraham and who ever knows what that one is thinking. None of this is funny anymore. How are we still listening to these Buffoons? How is that even possible?

We are all tired of the masks, the quarantines, but don’t you dare whine to me about your boredom. How awful for you that you’re stuck at home with your kids. Compare that to having a tube shoved down your throat to do your breathing for you. Or to being the person who must put the tube there and care for you, holding the phone so you can say your last goodbyes to family.

Covid Covid Covid. Covid Covid. He shouts it five times now with a smirk. “After November 3rd you won’t hear about it anymore.” He implies it’s something made up to make him look bad. Says the doctors exaggerate the death counts to get more money.

What’s everybody whining about? He had it and now he feels better than ever. It’s like the fountain of youth. Like an aphrodisiac. Just look at how lithely he ascends the stairs to Airforce One. By Golly, he can now hold a glass with one hand. Just look at Melania’s smile. A happy wife. What a Dude!

Covid Covid Covid, That’s all they talk about and he couldn’t have done more. They are ungratelful. They have free Purell at the rallies and might even toss some paper towels.

Stanford University researchers claim that Trump’s rallies have led to more than 30,000 new covid cases and likely more than 700 deaths.

Covid Covid Covid. If 229,000 deaths are, as Don Junior tells us, “almost nothing” of what importance are a mere 700 more? We’re rounding the curve though and like magic, Covid Covid Covid is going to disappear.