COVID-19 Update

There's some reporting that tells us the steep upward curve has been easing for several days, but we're still on track for 100,000 dead Americans by mid-May.

And the kind of shit Mike Pence pulled yesterday at the Mayo Clinic is not helpful.

First - optics, you stoopid fuck.

There are various probabilities here:

• "I'm just too strong for that silly old virus"
• "Wearing a mask would tell the world 45* is wrong about all of this"
• "I'm important - I get tested a lot - you don't because nobody gives a fuck about you" 

None of this was good. Any benefit he might've gotten out of it was lost because the world only saw what a tone deaf dickhead he is.

Lastly - what was the subliminal message being transmitted by the hospital officials?

"C'mon in, Mr Veep. And no sir, you needn't bother protecting yourself by wearing a mask in a place where you're ten thousand times more likely to get infected. If you take this shit back to the White House with you, maybe somebody in President FUBAR's administration will start doing what we need 'em to do."