This is a thread about how it affects us personally. A short as possible digression needed as background if I could:
rGames post might have been well meaning. The most positive interpretation would be: don't waste your time complaining about a criminal, and criminally incompetent charlatan, put your energies where they can do some good.
If that's the intention then great, but I don't agree. Donald Trump is going to be directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, I pray it will not be more than that. His idiotic right wing ideology (which he doesn't believe in, he doesn't believe in anything, he just goes with whatever gets him attention) and his brutal incompetence and ignorance led him to dismantle the pandemic unit of the security council. We were prepared for something like this, and he shut down the mechanism. To save money. He then ignored the warnings, refused information and help from the WHO. When the outbreak began, he joked about it, lied about it. He is now playing states against each other for resources.
Back to how it affects us. My wife has been in critical care after open heart surgery. She had several setbacks but is now progressing. It will be a slow recovery, taking time but all signals point to her making a full recovery. She was in ICU for several weeks, and is now in a rehab hospital. They take every precaution there because of the covid19 epidemic, so I cannot even visit her there, which is hard for her, though normally she'd be happy as hell to be rid of me for a nice long stretch, right now she needs all the support I can give her.
If she were to get the novel coronavirus, it would most likely kill her. Though normally tough as hell, she's very frail right now and there are pulmonary issues being worked through along with everything else.
So this is how this is affecting me. If she gets the virus and dies, then as far as I'm concerned Donald Trump fucking killed her.
We knew this guy was a menace, and that if anything really bad happened, we'd be in a lot of trouble. Well it did, and we are. In the 80s and 90s he was a joke, a famous failure. Then he became a sleezy tv character, the perfect celebrity for the increasingly stupid, dumbed down right wing america. Now he is about to add mass murder to his resume. If it includes my wife, I'm going to get mad.