re: "Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic" (The New York Times, March 17, 2020)
Trump 'on Feb. 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”'
It is indeed like a miracle. The defining characteristic of miracles is that they are, without exception, fake claims.
Every single miracle, including the miracle of blind, mindless faith in the likes of Trump and other self-proclaimed divinities, is fake through and through. Of the thousands of gods, devils, pixies, and elves that infest the human world, there is but one common denominator: non-existence.
Blindly putting your faith in the fantastic (literally fantastic) claims of absolute fakery is, however psychologically understandable, rarely the healthiest response to anything. However unpleasant it might be, a solid dose of reality is far more likely to cure the ills that confronts us, whether medical, social, economic or otherwise.
Trump's inflated fakery has already done great harm.
The true miracle made manifest here is the perfection of blind faith that so many have continued to accord him.
If only we could be sure that he and h
is like would disappear. That might take a miracle.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html#commentsContainer&permid=105881251:105881251
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