Michigan MAGA Moron Motorcade

It's an appalling development, coming at a time when this country could turn the tide in its fight against COVID-19 through social isolation, but the MAGA people are growing restless... an astroturfed group of idiots decided to descend on the capital of Michigan to snarl up traffic. Charmingly, a cadre of armed demonstrators posed with their shooting irons on the state capital building steps in order to intimidate the government. Good luck using hot lead against a novel coronavirus, guys.

Titillated and energized by this spectacle of self-harming sycophants, Trump was feeling frisky today on the Twitter, fomenting insurrection against Democratic governors, singling out Michigan, among others:

LIBERATE MICHIGAN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020

This uprising is coming at perhaps the worst possible time- when social isolation should be 'flattening the curve', people are gathering in states which are on the cusp of a disaster which is about to spiral out of control. Being a cynic, in a conversation with a coworker, I predicted that a half-million people in the US will die from this thing (being a bigger cynic, he's convinced that it will be a million). I would really, really hate to be right about this, but protests in Ohio and a scheduled protest in Austin don't exactly comfort me.

On a personal note, this chaps my ass because I have friends who are fighting (sucessfully) COVID-19, and a coworker of mine has a day job at a senior care facility which lost seven residents over the past two weeks. This pandemic is a horrorshow beyond the comprehension of most Americans, and these people are just dragging it out, and ensuring that more people will suffer.