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Letter to the editor: Coronavirus, Trump & national debt

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By Tribune-Review
1 Min Read May 3, 2020 | 6 years Ago
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Imbleachment. Injecting with disinfectants is called embalming. That’s what the Egyptians did to the pharaohs. Anybody who defends this indefensible stupidity, including the hydroxychloroquine quackery, is probably a Trump boot licker.

During President Obama’s eight years the national debt went from $12 trillion to $19 trillion, mostly due to the need to dig out of the 2008 second great Republican depression. We already had a yearly trillion-dollar deficit before covid-19, mostly to give the Republican donor class more tax cuts. The current national debt is $23 trillion. At $33 trillion $100,000 will be owed to the federal government for every man, woman and child in the country, a historic milestone! That’s how empires fail.

The 1918 pandemic occurred in three waves. It started fairly mild with a 2-4% death rate in the spring. It mutated and returned in the fall 10 times more deadly with a death rate at 20-40%, then mutated again and returned back to the more milder form by the following spring. It’s called evolution, something Mike Pence doesn’t seem to believe in.

Covid-19 may be following a similar path. Trump said it “might not come back at all” in the fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said it would. Put your money on Fauci.

Thoughts and prayers.

Lawrence Josephs

Penn Township, Westmoreland County

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