Relief From Election Results As Covid Rages On
Claudewell S. Thomas, MD, MPH, DLFAPA, is an established psychiatrist who is currently retired ,, He received his medical degree in 1956 at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and specializes in social psychiatry, public health psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Thomas was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry... more
More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in a 24 hour period. Some 7 million cases exist in the USA and some quarter-million have died. Fall and winter were predicted by true viral experts to be the most deadly time period for the disease and this is proving to be the case. The increasingly clear victory by Biden and Harris and their primary emphasis on dealing with the pandemic is blunted by the dog in the manger behavior of MOM and a remaining loyalist cadre.
Except for some paranoid tweets and a silent visit to Arlington National Cemetery, MOM (aka POTUS) has been silent. Although actively he is dismantling the functional links of the executive arm of government and filling the gaps with political loyalists. He is said to be obsessed with the pardon process for himself and his family. We are to hear from him this afternoon and the sense of dread stemming from the full realization that a narcissistic, sociopathic, autocrat is in charge for the next 70 days or so.
The loss of Arizona to Biden is of symbolic interest since Northern Arizona with its huge Navajo reservation has the highest death/infectivity ratio in the nation. According to CBS's 60 minutes the undertaker, in the absence of certified facilities and medical personnel to submit Covid swabs, uses the tissue from dead bodies (requiring a wholly different set of protocols) as the only evidence of this latest demonstration of historic U.S. non-acknowledgment of indigenous people.
The high incidence of tuberculosis, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity clearly played a major part in the ravaging of the native population by SARS-CoV- 2. I do not expect a release of resources by the autocrat unless in some way it contributes to his own self-interest.
