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On Coronavirus

 

On July 28th, in his corona virus update, President Trump said that there are large areas of the country that are free from the virus.  He was immediately attacked for that statement.  That attack was unfair because, contrary to his normal struggles with integrity, in this case he was exactly correct.  Three undeniable examples confirm this.

 

Firs29t, take deserts for example.  The high deserts of the northwest states combine with the Mojave, the Sonoran, and the other southwest deserts to comprise an area of 200,000 - 300,000 square miles which are almost completely plague free.   Add in Alaska, almost all of which is covid free, and which is nearly one third the size of the contiguous states and you have an extremely large area.

 

Second, lakes.  The Great Salt Lake is great.  Don't forget Lake Tahoe, a million lakes in Minnesota, and the Everglades and other swamps.  Then there are the Great Lakes, not only close to 95,000 square miles, but over 5,000 cubic miles.  Wow!

 

Finally, don't forget the coastal waters which extend 150 miles from nearly all of America's borders.  The Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf Coast, the West Coast, the Alaskan coast and Hawaiian coasts add an enormous amount of square and cubic miles.

 

All of these hundreds of thousands of square and cubic miles of America are virtually covid free.  A minor difficulty, however, is that they are also human free.  Our problem is not that small areas of the country contain the virus, it's that those areas are where our human populations live.  Sadly, there are no large inhabited areas that are free from the Trump Plague.

 

Trump says if there was no testing there would be no cases.  Likewise, if we could only get rid of people, we would have no cases as well.

 

So, the obvious two-pronged solution, of which the president has identified one prong, and I'm sure he'll soon apply his stable genius to the second, is to get rid of testing and get rid of people.  Fortunately, we only have to eliminate testing, which is  relatively easy, and people will soon thereafter be eliminated, too.

 

Next month: a simple solution to end racism.  (hint: it also involves eliminating people.)

 

 

- PeteBarkett.blogspot.com

07/ 29/20

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