“For once, something has come along that is more toxic and threatening than this president, and somehow, he’s got f*cking stage envy”
John Oliver returned to HBO last night — now working from home — and gave an in-depth update on the coronavirus and the “appalling federal response” to it. Oliver highlighted the call from President Trump and many conservative pundits to relax social-distancing guidelines much sooner than necessary, which would effectively, as Oliver put it, force people to “sacrifice themselves for the economy” and result in even more deaths.
Oliver also addressed the overrun hospitals and the overworked health-care professionals who are trying to save lives with an alarming shortage of masks, ventilators, and other medical supplies. Trump has claimed that states are exaggerating the number of supplies they need and is making states haggle with him and compete against each other to obtain them.
“This was always going to be hard, but it actually didn’t need to be this hard. And that is why it is so profoundly disheartening that we’re being led through this crisis by a man who may be less equipped to deal with this historical moment than anybody in recorded history,” Oliver said later in the segment, after highlighting all of the opportunities Trump had to get ahead of the virus, considering his claim that he always knew it would be a pandemic.
Despite the conservative line of thinking where “market worship threatens to become a fucking death cult,” Oliver pointed out that “extraordinary heroism, kindness, and ingenuity” has come out of all this too — especially from medical professionals, “who deserve, among other things, a fucking parade whenever we’re allowed to have parades again.
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