*Why America’s Anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes Doom It to Coronavirus "Pearl Harbor".*

(satire) "The free market works best with some healthy competition, so by increasing the number of U.S. states to 68, we can hopefully double the cost of ventilators," said the conman.

The effects of Covid-19 fall hardest on the poor and marginalized. In the US, that includes blacks, because racism tends to marginalize people and make them poor.

The article describes how this exacerbates the effects of Covid-19, citing blacks as an example. However, racism has some special consequences that go beyond the problems of being poor.

*I'm a black man in America. Entering a shop with a face mask might get me killed.*

Ordinary local thugs have not let up on shooting people, and the immigration thugs have not let up on arresting people for deportation (aside from the fraction that will die in immigration prison).

The narcissist uses his power to make people bow down to him, while caring nothing about others, even as he kills them.

He personally corrected the text of his speech to say "Chinese virus" instead of "coronavirus".

The Daily Beast speculates that this was meant to distract non-supporters from his bad decisions. I think it was meant to distract his supporters from them also.

The narcissist was told in January that Covid-19 might kill over a million Americans. Everything he has done to interfere was after hearing that danger.

Boris Johnson is now in intensive care due to Covid-19.

I won't mock him with the name "Bogus" now that he is very sick dying, but recall that his last great act of denialism was to deny that Covid-19 was a big danger. He denied this with actions as well as words, and he probably would not be sick now if he had not done so.