All eyes have been on President Donald Trump as he battles COVID-19, the disease he has spent most of this year downplaying as hundreds of thousands of people died on his watch. But even while he’s infected with the highly contagious virus, the president continues to gaslight a traumatized America by minimizing the pandemic.
On Monday, Trump left Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center despite still being infected with the
coronavirus. He was admitted to the hospital in Maryland on Friday just hours
after revealing that he and first lady Melania Trump had
tested positive for the virus, but White House physicians have not
been transparent about the president’s health in daily press conferences.
“Feeling really good!” Trump
tweeted. “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have
developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs &
knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
Trump’s tweet not only implied that those who die of COVID-19 are weak but also
suggested that the American people should not fear a virus that has already infected almost 7.5 million and
killed about 210,000 people in the United States this year — in
part due to the president’s own dangerous
rhetoric and botched response to the pandemic.
Most COVID-19 victims have
died alone due to safety precautions, leaving loved ones to navigate an already
difficult mourning process, and those who survive the illness often deal with
long-term health issues.
“My dad loved to talk and I
miss talking to him,” said Brian Walter, an essential transit worker in New
York whose father died from the virus, in a statement for the grassroots
network COVID Survivors for Change.
“To hear Trump say that people shouldn’t fear this virus hurts. It makes me
worry for all the families who will still experience the loss of a loved one
because our president refuses to take this pandemic seriously.”
From Huff Report
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