21 May 20
I see the People’s Daily published the latest dispatch from the planet Neptune, where it has its very own correspondent, a retired professor of Neptune-studies. Conditions on Neptune resemble a dystopian hell and, luckily for us on planet earth, the only place anything like Neptune is New York State. There, its bully-governor sent patients still infectious with Covid-19 back into retirement homes because that was his rule. The consequences were as disastrous as they were predictable, and the unapologetic governor now blames his rule on the Trump Administration’s CDC. He acknowledged being surprised that two-thirds of all Covid-19 deaths in his state were from people who had followed his lock-down orders to the letter. Being progressive means never saying you’re sorry.
A bright, shining example lies further south, in Florida, governed by Trump-protégé Ron DeSantis. In a state with lots of seniors, DeSantis focussed protective efforts on them, making hospitals keep seniors with Covid-19 until they were completely free of the virus. DeSantis never shut down the state, and today Florida’s death toll is, like, two percent of the national total, with New York State having fifty percent. DeSantis looked at South Korea, Europe, studied the numbers and the treatments, and then acted empirically. Young people on sunny Florida beaches posed no danger to public health.
Luckily, viruses from the planet Neptune have little chance of infecting anyone here on earth.
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