Via Tengrain, we have the disquieting news that the Trump Maladministration rescinded the FDA's authority to regulate COVID-19 tests. Not only does that leave the COVID-19 testing field open to grifters like the My Pillow Guy and Doctor Demon Semen (how soon will she develop a test to determine how much Satanic Spooge is infecting the ill?), the possibility that faulty tests will result in lower positive rates could be spun as getting the pandemic under control. The current death toll stands at over 180,000, though I can't be the only one to suspect that this figure is a gross undercount. For the record, I predicted in March that the death toll in the US would hit half-a-million before the pandemic runs its course.
The deregulation of testing kits to lower the official death count strikes me as a ploy by the Maladministration to underplay Trump's horrendously inept handling of the pandemic in the runup to the election. His hope that a Russian vaccine could be rushed to the market is a 'Hail Mary' pass, never mind the need for clinical trials... he is already attacking the Food and Drug Administration as a 'deep state' agency trying to delay a vaccine rollout to hurt him politically.
Meanwhile, he's touting another toxin as a cure. November cannot come soon enough!
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And yet, even with all this....
As a former president, he'll be entitled to Secret Service protection. A pension. A presidential library. National intelligence briefings. And to call himself "President Trump" for what remains of his pointless, selfish, joyless life.
What really needs to happen is for him to be stripped of his wealth, his pensions, privileges and freedom, and to be imprisoned for the rest of his life. Even all that won't make up for the deaths and suffering he's caused.
I want to see his whole crew sent to the pokey, most of his family too.
I help run covid tests at my state's health department. Some of them are very inaccurate. If your symptoms match the disease, act as though you have it. Period.
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