My Experience with COVID
On the evening of Thursday, August 27th, I started feeling bad. I wasn’t sure if it was a chest cold coming on or allergies. I woke up Friday feeling very tired and sluggish. Friday night I had horrible chest and head pressure, a mild fever and was very fatigued. I felt about the same all weekend. When I returned to work Monday morning, August 31st, I answered yes when asked if I had any symptoms of COVID. I was sent to Medical where I was tested for COVID and the results came back POSITIVE on Wednesday, September 2nd. COVID has been a roller coaster ride, some days I feel moderately better, some I can hardly get out of my chair. I’ll eventually beat COVID and be back to normal.
With the release of journalist Bob Woodward’s taped interviews with Trump yesterday I wonder if he had taken the virus seriously from the start where our nation would be? More than 190,000 American’s have died from COVID. Trump was warned in January that the virus would be horrible if not addressed. He lied to the American public and said it was “one person coming from China”. He continued to lie and “downplay” the virus and even hosted “super spreader” rallies all while knowing the virus could be spread through the air. How many lives would have been saved if Trump took the virus seriously?
By contrast on January 27th, Joe Biden wrote an op-ed for the New York Times and laid out exactly why he thought Trump was not prepared to lead the nation through this pandemic writing: “To be blunt, I am concerned that the Trump administration’s shortsighted policies have left us unprepared for a dangerous epidemic that will come out sooner or later.
Pandemic diseases are a prime example of why international cooperation is a requirement of leadership in 2020. Diseases do not stop at borders. They cannot be thwarted by building a wall. We cannot keep ourselves safe without helping to keep others safe as well and without enlisting the help of other nations in return. And here’s the truth – the United States must step forward to lead these efforts, because no other nation has the resourced, the reach or the relationships to marshal an effective international response.”
The release of Bob Woodward’s interviews with Trump prove that Joe Biden was right. I didn’t write this for sympathy, I’m going to beat COVID. But what about the tens..no, hundreds of thousands of Americans that have died or will die because Trump refused to lead during this crisis? Rant over.
