“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.” – Rush Limbaugh
“One day, it’s like a miracle – it will disappear.” – Donald Trump
“The risk to the average person does remain quite low. ” – Laura Ingraham
The American death toll from the novel coronavirus passed 250,000. That’s a quarter of a million people lying with a Buick parked on their chests, swimming in their own sweat, feeble as an August breeze, head pounding like a bass drum in the devil’s rock band, dying.
And for some, denying it to the end. As Jodi Doering, an ER nurse in Woonsocket, South Dakota, puts it, “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real.”‘