COVID-19 Rules: Politics, Absurdity
President Trump Government officials’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic shows perhaps more than ever before why people can’t depend on them, and need to think for themselves. I refer not just to President Trump’s speculation that ingestion of cleaning agents might kill the virus, or his early declaration that the pandemic was a hoax, or that it would go away quickly, or that he first praised China’s handling of the outbreak so as not to harm trade negotiations and then placed