Letter to the editor: Trump's covid-19 rallies

Mixed emotions are the feelings parents experience the morning after the high school prom when their 16-year-old daughter arrives home carrying a Gideon Bible. For me, it is wanting to learn all I can about the coronavirus while suffering from information overload.

President Trump has turned the virus pandemic briefings (poor word choice) into campaign rallies. What does the unemployment rate of African Americans have to do with coronavirus? Or trades with China? Or Mexican soldiers guarding their northern border? Are they keeping our virus-carriers out of their country?

His rallies include the usual “no one has ever seen anything like the great job I’m doing,” along with Houdini-like maneuvers of self-back-patting.

He does let us know that he opposes mail-in voting (ignore self-distancing), while he does so regularly. And that he chooses not to wear a protective mask while health care professionals encourage the practice. Do as I say?

Vice President Mike Pence now has a speaking role at these events (better word choice), far different than his usual task of being a human potted plant, positioned to gaze admiringly upon the chosen one.

Doctors Fauci and Birx are informed professionals, if only they were unaccompanied by Trump and his minions.

I’ll continue watching, albeit with my thumb poised near the mute button on my remote, information overload be damned.

Glenn Plummer

Unity