Not ridiculous
What? What’s he done now?
Let me guess – some crowd thing, that was canceled so as not to spread the virus even more, and he pitched a fit and said SPREAD THE VIRUS MORE.
On Monday, after evaluating plans to hold a large annual event in the midst of an escalating pandemic, Arlington National Cemetery canceled the event planned next month, saying it could not mitigate the risk to thousands of visitors and cemetery staff.
But on Tuesday, after criticism from Republican lawmakers and public outcry, President Trump said he overrode Army officials, tweeting that he “reversed the ridiculous decision to cancel Wreaths Across America,” an annual event that draws thousands of volunteers to lay holidays wreaths on headstones throughout the cemetery.
So more people will get the virus, and more hospitals and healthcare workers will be swamped, and more people will die of the virus.
The reversal comes a day after cemetery officials announced they evaluated several options to hold the event — in consultation with public health officials and Wreaths Across America — and decided the cemetery could not safely execute the sprawling operation.
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Republican lawmakers, including war veterans Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Tex.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.), criticized Army officials when the cancellation was announced. “Our fallen deserve to be remembered,” Crenshaw said on Twitter.
But it’s entirely possible to remember them without physically going to Arlington at the height of a pandemic. The fallen are not there, they’re not sitting in the graves watching to see if people turn up or not. It’s possible, and responsible, to put off visiting the graves until later, while still remembering the dead now.
I wish someone in heavy boots would kick Trump in the head.
So a combination of religious test, loyalty test, and intelligence test, to be followed soon after by a COVID test.
For some it will be final exam time.
It’s strange how so many “patriots” will risk death for the shallow, empty, jingoistic symbols of patriotism but will oppose things that actually help their fellow citizens. The attitude of Crenshaw and Cotton is in stark contrast with that of a vetran’s tweet I saw a few weeks ago, which went something like this:
Do you think I served so that some athlete could kneel during the national anthem? Damn right I did.
I’ve participated in WAC a couple times at the local veterans’ cemetery where my father is buried, and it can be a moving experience. And given the outdoor location, if they actually enforce mask-wearing (hell, most folks wear scarves here, anyway) and spread the crowd out a bit, it shouldn’t be too hard to keep it from being a super-spreader event. But that’s with adults running the show; I suspect Trump would just as soon cram everyone into the smallest space possible in order to make it seem better-attended, and then insist all the speakers go maskless.
Oh, great. Don’t miss any opportunity to bring maskless covid-denying MAGAts to our neighborhood, Donnie. If we’re lucky, they’ll overwhelm the local hospitals.
Time to disappear into my cave, I suppose.