In error, President Trump believes that if he no longer talks about the coronavirus, or fails to wear a mask, it may disappear.
Aside from the lack of pandemic leadership in February, perhaps President Trump’s current lack of attention to the pandemic is a result of his focused efforts to comfort the country in these times of national distress and turmoil resulting from ongoing brutality against Black citizens that came to a head with the George Floyd police lynching.
President Trump has put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the Trump administration’s “Coronavirus Response Team.”
In one of the strangest twists, Vice President Pence (the head of the “Coronavirus Response Team”) and President Trump have conspicuously refused to wear masks in public.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the face of the national effort to deal with the coronavirus crisis, recently commented, “When you look at the proportion of people that get into serious trouble and die, again, it’s going to be disproportionate towards the African Americans.”
