Virus: Trump apologists are worse than disease

Re: “China, not Trump, lit flame, deserves blame,” (TNT, 4/24).

Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen’s mistaken indictment of socialized medicine as a cause of the pandemic is now superseded by blaming China.

President Trump’s removal of Rick Bright as head of an agency dedicated to developing a vaccine and removing inspectors general as “watchdogs” is unconscionable.

We don’t need China to magnify our ineptness when the president suggests an ad-hoc policy which now includes ingesting or injecting cleaning agents.

Thiessen says: “Trump heeded the advice of our public health experts every step of the way.” Yet Trump’s suggestion to use Lysol or Hydroxychloroquine as a “panacea” reveals not only ignorance, but the dangers which we are all subject to — and China has nothing to do with it.

Thiessen is complicit as an apologist for Trump. Thiessen’s non-critical thinking in absolving the president is the real indignation and the virus of his presidency, worse than the disease. It is a condition that no vaccine will cure.

This story was originally published May 2, 2020 at 10:48 AM with the headline "Virus: Trump apologists are worse than disease."