Vaccinated Governments

The new normal is a return to the old normal. This is the platform that Donald Trump hopes will grant him victory at the ballot box.

The new normal is a return to the old normal. This is the election platform that Donald Trump hopes will grant him victory at the ballot box. The president of the United States has been mulling the matter over for some time but has finally made a decision. He is not interested in the virus. He wants to move on, let the dead bury the dead and revive the economy. He has been asked to do this by the lobbyists who support him: oil companies, arms and aircraft manufacturers, cruise companies and hotel owners, among whom he counts himself. His hopes of victory on Nov. 3 also demand it.

Counting the dead and giving advice on how not to die does not make for an election campaign. Responding to impertinent questions made by journalists with good memories, even less so. The thing to do is only give good news and announce that your country will be the first to recover. It doesn’t matter that this is refuted by infection and death toll figures, the infection curve that never flattens, and data on the economic downtown and unemployment. As reality is of no interest, it must be concealed.

If the presidential debates, where Trump is in his element, cannot take place, then daily TV appearances with scientists who are intent on clarifying Trumpist assertions and advising against miracle cures are less useful and even detrimental. When the medical team is no longer useful, it is dismissed.

Trump was torn between the corrective redemption shown by Boris Johnson, who was deeply affected by his own experience as a victim of the virus, and the defiant intransigence shown by Jair Bolsonaro, who has not been infected despite his own best efforts. He now takes for granted that a vaccine will be developed this year and that Remdesivir kills viruses more effectively than bleach, despite Anthony Fauci’s expert claims to the contrary. He accepts social distancing and masks, but he and his vice president abstain from these questionable practices that leftists value so highly. Case closed.

If something goes wrong, Trump has a strategy to secure the ballot: If the curve does not flatten, if there are new or even more virulent outbreaks, and even if the projected death toll reaches 2 million, China is to blame. And it must pay the price, literally. The state of Missouri has already filed the first lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party, and it is suspected that Trump will request reparations, like the victors at the end of a war used to do to the defeated power.

It is absolutely ironic that the biggest obstacle for a lawsuit like this is sovereign immunity, which is recognized as a principle of the international law that establishes the equal treatment of all states before the courts. If Washington wanted to contravene it, Beijing could make the same move, and there would be a downpour of lawsuits made by all countries against others, with Saudi Arabia as the first target over the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and the 9/11 attacks.

The governments have already been vaccinated, although Trump claims that only his is sovereignly immune. Those who haven’t been vaccinated, either against the coronavirus or the sovereign unlawfulness of certain governments, are the people.