Last evening, after three days of hospitalization and amid much fanfare, the President left the Walter Reed Medical Center by helicopter. Back home, standing on the South Portico of the White House and posing for photos to accommodate the moronic photographers elbowing one another in the mosh pit below -- like what the world needs is more pictures of Trump, right? -- he removed his blue paper mask and stuffed it in his jacket pocket. Then, after saluting the retreating helicopter pilot and waving to the assembled crowd, he turned and walked inside.
In an article posted online this morning, CNN described his behavior as "reckless mask removal." I hate that! Suddenly it was reckless? Says who?
You see, I have a brain that still works and allows me to draw my own conclusions as to whether or not removing one's face mask, when nobody else is nearby, is okay. But the writers at CNN (and MSNBC and The New York Times and the rest of that gang) clearly believe that Regular People Like Us need direction. We need to be told how to feel and what to think. We might not get it otherwise. It's insulting.
The offending article included the following emailed statement from Dr. Janet Baseman, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington's School of Health: "The rest of us who don't have access to such care should continue to worry about Covid."
WTF? A doctor prescribing worry? That seemed wrong. So then I looked up the word "worry" in the dictionary and found it to mean, "to give way to anxiety or unease, allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles," and "a state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems."
Personally, despite knowing full well that he might be losing his mind and who could blame him after four years of unrelenting venom thrown at him from every which way, I prefer Trump's advice: "Don't be afraid of it. Don't let it dominate your life." Otherwise, God knows what could happen to me; I might even suffer a second heart attack! (I had one three years ago.)
One thing's for sure: I will stop reading the irresponsible drivel spewed by those seeking to sensationalize everything Trump does in order to insure a Biden victory this November, which by the way really worries me.
The creepy part is that it almost seems like they are all in on it, they want to keep us afraid and we can be better controlled that way. But they keep gearing up and dialing up which will make people that are weak minded act out, what kind of people are these that want to feed that? Not people being in charge of anything and especially not this country.
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