October 2nd President Trump announced he tested positive for the Coronavirus after one of his staff members tested positive. A lot of Americans posted, get well soon , we are with you and the like. Other responses were ugly and horrifying to invoke on anyone let alone a sitting President.
Chris Wallace of Fox News, wear the damn mask! Trump should concede the election, the NY Times. It gets worse the further down the news media chain to the basic citizens calling for his death. “You are responsible for 208,000 deaths, you get what you deserve!” “You should drink Clorox like you told us to!” “No one deserves to die more than you!” “You put America at risk with your ignorance, you should die!”
When I clicked on President Trump’s message on twitter at that point it had 2.3 million views about half were positive and the other half negative. It totally made me sick to see people calling for his death! This man, man, is a husband, a father and a grandfather, working thru life as we all do. How angry would many of these people be if they posted their parent or loved one had fallen ill and others were calling for their death?
Here is my take. It is absolutely abhorrent to call for someone’s death because you don’t agree with their political view! It goes to the seventh layer of hell when these same people are spitting venom that is not their own! The venom of the media talking points! Please do your own research, don’t be part of the sheeple crowd! Let me specifically get to those who are blaming the President for the 208,000 deaths in this country. You would have a platform to stand on if and only if there was a country in the world that this pandemic has not affected! Please if you can point that country out, do it. To all of the mask police out there have you listened to the talking points of wearing a mask? Have you read the packaging on a mask wrapper? A mask may SLOW the spread not stop it! A person called in to a local radio show talking about how he tested positive for the coronavirus. He was shocked that his family is now affected even though they wore masks and socially distanced. “I did everything I was supposed to do.” Are people thinking this coronavirus is something new, no! It is now the seventh named coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003. Are Americans literally waiting for a vaccine for this, it seems state level governments base their executive orders on this thinking. The swine flu took a year and a half to come up with something viable. Guess what the swine flu is still out there, they did not eradicate it, just contained it. So SARS-CoV2 is not going away, it is here, what do you do now?
We should not be surprised President Trump tested positive. Did we stop AIDS from crossing the globe? Did we do such a great job of stopping the swine flu that 60,800,000 Americans were infected with it? The Spanish flu of 1918 infected 500 million world wide and killed 675,000 Americans. It is idiotic to think half of this country wants to blame this virus on one man and wish for his death. It was a losing battle, regardless of what President Trump did or did not do.