Trump’s Terrible Transition of Aiding The Coronavirus
We went through decades from the modern science establishment after WWII, where the physical sciences were considered to be dominant. Then, abound 1990, the biological sciences were considered to have taken precedence. It is clear that with the 70 million voting for Trump, most of who do not believe the established media and press, who are seriously misled about the reality and method of fighting the pandemic, and who won’t take a vaccine, that psychology must take precedence.
We have to study what motivates some people to fall into an entirely artificial world created by charlatans, and find psychological methods to lead them back to reality. This must be done without them being blocked by guilt that they might feel about realizing and admitting that they have been pursuing false beliefs, which have led to damaging consequences in health, our economy, our rights, and our respect for government.
Cleaning a table, I found the postcard sent out as Trump’s rules for fighting the pandemic, and it did not mention masks. I also had a flyer from the city of Irvine, which has been Republican dominated, also not recommending masks, but saying that if you must wear one, don’t touch it. That doesn’t make logical sense. Saying don’t touch your mask implies that it has absorbed droplets that otherwise you would have inhaled and gotten infected. Which means you really need to wear a mask. Trump is still holding events, including in the White House and among Republican legislators in Pennsylvania, where people are packed together, and don’t wear masks.
I think that there are now eight Senators who are infected with Covid-19, all of who are Republicans. Since there are about an equal number of Republican and Democratic Senators, the odds of an infected Senator being one or the other is about 1/2. So the odds of all eight belonging to only one party is (1/2)^8 = 1/256. Hardly random. Yes, more precisely, for them all to be Republicans is (53/100)^8 = 0.00623 = 1/161.
While Trump is continuing to pardon his henchmen, he has no intention of seeking pardons from the soon to be 300,000 people whose lives were taken by his misleading and ineffective attack on the pandemic, and all of their grieving relatives and friends, and all who suffered from infections in hospitals and at home, and who may have emerged with lifelong handicaps.
Trump gave out his usual line that other countries are laughing at our election system. No, they are concerned that we allow Trump to continue trying to corrupt our system, from an obvious and confirmed win by his opponent, President Elect Joe Biden.
The age of biological sciences has indeed payed off in the rapid development of vaccines for the Coronavirus, and in searching for medicines to treat it. Had searches for knowledge and vaccines not been mostly canceled after the last SARS infection was banished, we may have achieved this even earlier. Also hindrances were the cancellation by Trump of the agency meant to anticipate and respond to emerging viruses, the withdrawal of a research team in Wuhan, and dropping out of the W.H.O.
Other than taking credit for the Pfizer vaccine, which was not developed with Warp Speed funds, Trump has done nothing to fight the Coronavirus during the last month of the campaign, and during the transition period. His false prophet, Scott Atlas, has continued to get people to spread it.
To add to his terrible pandemic legacy, Trump’s three Supreme Court Justices have ruled against limits on the size of religious gatherings proposed by the State of New York. They overruled a previous case in California that upheld such limits. Since Trump’s justices were chosen to preserve human life by ending Roe versus Wade, it is contradictory for them to put lives of the religious at risk in churches, synagogues, or mosques in the age of the pandemic. When lives are at stake, Chief Justice Roberts joins the liberals, so it was a 5-4 decision. This may bode ill for the Affordable Care Act, where many more lives are at stake. This may also bode ill for safe environmental regulations for air pollution and clean water, as well as long term climate change mitigation.
It will be four weeks after the election by next Tuesday, with no real time spent with the departments and agencies in the transition. There are eight weeks left, but with both Christmas and New Year’s extended weekends, and vacations, there may only be six weeks left of real transition cooperation and education. In the meantime, Trump is polluting scientific advisory committees, installing more conflicting agents in departments, and tearing apart regulations, including selling off ANWR for drilling.
Trump now plans to campaign in Georgia for its two Republican Senators. Which brings us back to the need for a change in psychology.
