SELF's Editor-in-Chief CarolynKylstra has a message: Listen to the public health experts, not the politicians. Because this virus doesn’t care about your politics—clearly.
As if the only options here are complete and total lockdown or complete and total return to normalcy. As if the economy can get back to normal without getting the virus under control first. As if other countries in the world haven’t already figured this out.Let’s focus on that last point. Because the COVID-19 outbreak in the White House isn’t an example of a President taking all necessary precautions and contracting the virus anyway.
behaved recklessly, foolishly, and irresponsibly, ultimately endangering the health and safety of themselves and those around them. In an apparent effort to project that everything was normal and fine, COVID-19 be damned, they behaved accordingly—COVID-19 be damned. Unluckily for Trump, this resulted in the obvious outcome of a COVID-19 outbreak, and his resultant hospitalization. Luckily for Trump, he has access to some of the best doctors around, as well as fully taxpayer-funded healthcare .
If there’s one lesson to take away from this horrific and historic event, it’s this: If you want things to return to normal, we all need to work together and do what we can to beat back this virus, which means listening to the public health experts and wearing masks, avoiding large indoor gatherings, self-quarantining after exposure, and so on.Related Content:
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