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I’m not one to immediately assign blame the first sign someone causes a big screw-up, but the current virus emergency ravaging our country and the world warrants suspension of all such restraints.

The entire Covid-19 response would have arguably been handled in a vastly more professional manner had Senate Republicans done their duty and removed the mandarin orange menace from office when they had the opportunity to do so during his impeachment trial. By having failed at that task, they must now share the blame for the toll in human suffering and lives lost and the financial upheaval resulting from the pathetic third-world response our government has mounted thus far to combat the crisis.

When the smoke has cleared and all the dots begin to be connected regarding the whys and wherefores of how testing kits were not made available for so long plus the confusing conglomeration of conflicting messages that have emanated from public health and other government officials, as will surely occur at some point, it should be made clear to all who the villains were in this fiasco.

While trump will shoulder the lion’s share of the blame, senators the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson and John Kennedy of Louisiana, plus their accomplices, as well as Congressmen Kevin McCarthy Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz are equally responsible for their complicity in the fiasco; if their involvement in this sordid affair is not addressed in federal court, it should definitely be addressed in the Court of Public Opinion, the ballot box.

Tim Konrad