President Mao

He (Ch'in-Shih-huang, the first emperor of China) only buried alive 460 scholars, while we buried 46,000. In our suppression of the counterrevolutionaries, did we not kill some counterrevolutionary intellectuals? I once debated with the democratic people: You accuse us of acting like Ch'in-shih-huang, but you are wrong; we surpass him 100 times
-- Mao Zedong/1958

Now you know what's eating The Manchurian President; he wants to follow in the footsteps of Mao. Kill off all those Blue City intellectuals. It's not a coincidence that The Manchurian President has been dragging his feet, disparaging the scientists, and ruling from his gut all this time.

But stopping the efforts to curtail Covid-19 will backfire. There's precious few hospitals, beds, not to mention ICUs, out in God's Country. Once the virus gets a foothold out there, with morons who disdain facts, goodbye Momma.

Well before the COVID-19 threat, rural health care's profitability had collapsed nationwide due to a combination of narrowing Medicare reimbursements, a larger share of patients lacking high-paying private insurance and the hollowing out of rural America. Given such pressures, more than 120 rural hospitals have been forced to close over the past decade.
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To be sure, rural hospitals are not as equipped as larger hospital systems to handle the most serious coronavirus cases. Many are not outfitted with ICUs or enough doctors and staff to handle multiple intensive care patients. That means they have to transfer those patients to larger hospitals.

Well... should those hateful, liberal, LGBTQ loving city hospitals take them? After all, those rural folk hate city folk to begin with. Red state rurals all voted for The Manchurian President, right?

A fact: Hong Kong's leaders thought all was well. Turns out, not so much.

Hong Kong was proof that these measures worked, with the city of 7.5 million only reporting some 150 cases at the start of March, even as the number of infections spiked in other East Asian territories like South Korea and Japan, and spread rapidly across Europe and North America.

Now, however, Hong Kong is providing a very different object lesson -- what happens when you let your guard down too soon. The number of confirmed cases has almost doubled in the past week, with many imported from overseas, as Hong Kong residents who had left -- either to work or study abroad, or to seek safety when the city seemed destined for a major outbreak earlier this year -- return, bringing the virus back with them.

Removing the tourniquet while the patient still bleeds is the act of a fucking moron. You read it here first.