Trump: “If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”
by Bob Schwartz
The pandemic has been the period of the stupidest things Trump has ever said, which is saying something.
Even though the pandemic is far from resolved, it was widely believed that his suggestion to inject disinfectant as a cure was as stupid as it could get.
Of course it wasn’t.
Yesterday Trump said the following. Please read it slowly. Just as with the beauty of perfect intelligence, perfect stupidity has its own perverse beauty.
“And don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”
We are sometimes at a loss to describe and explain the range of shortcomings and indecent venality that Trump daily reveals about himself. It is a multi-faceted tragedy, much like the growing list of symptoms that COVID-19 inflicts.
This one quote captures it all. Needless to say, whether or not you count the people suffering and dying of COVID-19 in America, they are still suffering and dying. They are still cases. Cases are not numbers. Cases are people. Cases are facts. It’s just that without the numbers, the facts can be buried, the public impact softened, and the blame averted.
But sick and dead is sick and dead. Even if Trump doesn’t want anyone to know. Or to know just how tragically stupid he is.
Too late.
Bob Schwartz 
You are not alone Bob. We have Boris Johnson over here – another complete ignoramus. A man who is provably completely out of his depth. The trouble is, Johnson has surrounded himself with a bunch of talentless morons and, unless there is a coup d’etat, then we are stuck with this waffling lunatic and his sycophants for quite a few more years yet. I never thought I would ever wish for a revolution in my own country!