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How The Devastation of Covid-19 Exposes America’s Disdain For The Needy

Ezinne Ukoha

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It’s hard to remember what it felt like to step outside and roam around with blissful nonchalance, without the hovering danger of either getting infected or infecting others with a deadly virus that has killed over 130,00 Americans.

When the nationwide shutdown became the mandatory status back in March, the immediacy of such drastic measures expectedly summoned a level of hysteria that hasn’t quite dissipated.

The Trump administration with the trusted assistance of its assigned extension, Fox News, spent weeks downplaying Covid-19 as the hoax that radical Democrats were weaponizing against the man-baby, presently defacing The White House with his particular brand of normalized orneriness.

But when the threatening arrival of what turned out to be a global pandemic began it’s phase of mass destruction, it was difficult for Trump and his cabinet of fools to continue the tone-deaf narrative that didn’t match up with glaring evidence of an unprecedented national catastrophe.

The staggering number of casualties were amassed from the gross negligence that tragically delayed implementation of lifesaving mechanisms, that should’ve prevented the senseless loss of innocent Americans, who didn’t stand a chance against the raging machine of deadly dysfunction…

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