{"id":43583,"date":"2020-07-12T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43583"},"modified":"2020-07-12T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:57:17","slug":"what-took-so-long-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43583","title":{"rendered":"What took so long, Mr. POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23masks%20%23POTUS%20%23pandemic%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43577\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump finally saw fit to wear a mask in public, to do the very thing his team of infectious disease experts has been imploring the public to do while the nation fights a so-far losing battle against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He donned the mask while touring Walter Reed Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>If only Donald Trump had decided, oh, about three months ago to do the right thing. What might have been the result? Here&#8217;s a thought: Given the cult of personality that has developed around this clown, there well might have been less political resistance from the Trumpkin Corps against wearing the mask. As a result, there could have been thousands fewer infections and thousands fewer deaths as a result.<\/p>\n<p>But oh, no! Trump wasn&#8217;t going to wear a mask. It didn&#8217;t look, um, &#8220;presidential,&#8221; or so he inferred. I guess he&#8217;s changed his mind? Is that possible? Who the hell knows?<\/p>\n<p>The surgeon general pleads with us to wear a mask in public; so does the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; same for the secretary of health and human services; the top medical experts on the White House pandemic response team say the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, we&#8217;re hearing from governors, county officials, mayors, school leaders, hospital officials, emergency responders, firefighters and cops to do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The president? Until just this weekend he has thought differently and has brought that vocal but shrinking base of supporters along with him.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump should be ashamed. So should those who resist the mask-wearing and the mandates to take other precautions to avoid getting swept up in the pandemic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;oh! I almost forgot! Donald Trump has no shame.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23masks%20%23POTUS%20%23pandemic%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump finally saw fit to wear a mask in public, to do the very thing his team of infectious disease experts has been imploring the public to do while the nation fights a so-far losing battle against the coronavirus pandemic. He donned the mask while touring Walter Reed Medical Center. If only Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What took so long, Mr. POTUS?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9236,9257,1424,9261,9451],"class_list":["post-43583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic","tag-wearing-masks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43584,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions\/43584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}