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I find it absolutely incredible how people—government officials, the press and the pubic, with relatively few exceptions—are pretending the government’s response to the coronavirus is normal, reasonable, adequate, sufficient, acceptable, you name it, when there is nothing acceptable, reasonable, adequate, sufficient or normal about it whatsoever. The surrealness of the entire scene, the absurdity of it all, is now approaching Fellini-like proportions. What in the world will it take for people to wake up and realize the utter ridiculousness of the spectacle unfolding before us?

Watching the reporters at the daily presidential “press conferences” ask their questions with childlike naivete, as if they actually expect to receive answers that aren’t stained with trump’s characteristic fog of toxic bullshit and stupid, self-aggrandizing, superlative-ridden drivel is at once astonishing, enraging and sad beyond belief. Don’t these people realize that, by blindly playing along with this deadly game, they are lending a false sense of legitimacy to the fictional narrative being spun by this Rasputin-like master of deceit?

The cognitive dissonance between trump’s useless utterances and reports on the ground that wholly contradict every fake reassurance, boast and promise he makes is staggeringly mind-numbing. It’s as if everyone’s brains have been consumed by zombies while they were sleeping.  The best science fiction writers could not have conceived of the dystopian world toward which we are all fast hurtling.

The reporters in the White House Press Corps and their colleagues across the nation need to stop playing along with the circus in the capital and quit acting as if it’s just another day on the job. It isn’t!

In a world where normal rules are no longer applicable, normal responses aren’t either!

Tim Konrad