How Trump Is Still Going To Kill 100,000 People
In a modern democracy, Joe Biden would be President already, but America is not a modern democracy. American democracy is an old Rube Goldberg machine, full of racist booby traps and plain oddities. The founders originally left 4 months for the President-Elect to ride a horse into the capital. FDR reduced this to two after the Great Depression. After this, they may have to amend their Constitution again.
In this brutal interregnum, at least 100,000 people will die.
During the election itself, over 1,000 people were dying. Every day. This is only accelerating. America is flying five 737s into the ground every day because they send them up without pilots. They’ll keep doing this for another 72 days, because America.
If America is lucky inauguration day will follow 100,000 funerals. That is (literally) a conservative scenario.
“I see this as a very precarious moment,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who said that the Trump administration had “basically thrown in the towel” on trying to control the pandemic, while Mr. Biden and his team have nothing to wield but “moral power and social power” until Jan. 20."Without significant action," he said, "the idea that we have another 100,000 deaths by Inauguration Day would be a conservative estimate." (NYT)
Americans have voted and yet their fate remains sealed. The superspreader is still in the White House where he will remain for interminable months, doing lasting damage. These 100,000 deaths are just going to happen. And more.
While Americans are killing time, Donald Trump will continue killing Americans.
Biding Time
Joe Biden can only bide his time and wait. The last time Republicans broke the country, the mass-murderer Bush at least worked with Obama. Trump — focused as he is on murdering Americans — shows more signs of civil war than civil discussion.
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