Believe it when Tr says he wants to "open the country". Believe them that they prefer death for those in the way of their "more".
Their imagination does not extend any further than their self-interest & limited axiomatic understanding of life.
"We cannot sacrifice our whole country...".
This is a recurrent theme. Starting to hear it in the Senate, and Trump in his daily nonsense spews pretending to be "press conferences".
To me, this is prime example
The reason we are in the dilemma of (supposedly) "sacrificing the entire country" in responding to the Corona crisis is because of the
It is directly due to this deadly 'failure of response' and the related 'failure of imagination' predicated upon a corroded foundation of one mans
A man who thinks himself a genius, who "governs" (if that is not too august a word for what actually is happening) by his ignorant "hunches"
Even now he refuses to tell the truth about anything. Masks? Already available by the millions, he says.
And these are just the top-level lies that have been the context of this administration's, and this frail man's response to the moment.
There are even more when you include references to Health Care.
I suspect some psychologists would have a useful perspective on this syndrome. From out here it looks like
"we need people to die, I'll pretend I would, but it is your turn"