Covid War Criminals
Impeachment’s Over. Bring On the Criminal Investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/mcconnell-impeachment-trump.html
Mr. Trump, along with those who fell for his masterful diversion, successfully avoided indictment for Covid irresponsibility, leading politicians and the media onto comparatively trivial concerns which are their preference when faced with genuinely critical threats to the commonweal.
The pandemic frightened the country's leaders of all stripes into digging themselves deeper into solipsism and navel gazing (with masks, social distancing and Zoom) about what they know best to avoid what they know least about.
Financial markets, climate change advocates, sexual predation, celebrity stunts, political grandstanding, sports, entertainment, wild-eyed conspiracies, misbegotten endless wars, and more, continued as if nothing much was going on that deserved change of obsessions, complaints, accusations, defensiveness, aggressiveness, feeble-mindedness, whataboutism, Russian interference, the lot of daily junk news, opinions, essays, personal squabbles, and as ever, fund-raising, Lincoln Project and Assange only two among thousands grifting for donations and forever exculpating the con-artistry head-bobblers and Substackers and Parlerers.
All these headliners are more like Trump than different, and vice versa, so they emulate one another in fighting for attention while the pandemic savages the seduced populace.
How to investigate a nation's or a globe's failure to respond to a genocidal calamity. Who can prosecute, judge and jury that are not complicit in the war crime?