A man named Everett

Everett raised beagles and went to church four times a week.  He lived on property with his wife and family, six of whom got COVID.

Just before the virus hit, Everett's father's doctor told him, "You are ninety!  And your health is that of a man of fifty. You are the poster child for senior citizens." 

Everyone else in the family had symptoms so mild they thought it was seasonal allergies.  They all survived, even his wife with dementia who still lived at home and was cared for by Everett--all, that is, but Everett.  He died in the hospital, alone. 

His tearful daughter told this story on NPR this morning. 

When the interviewer asked her how she felt about Trump's handling of the virus, she said, "Now you have moved me from sadness to anger. He has done an abominable job!  He is responsible for the death of my father and thousands more."  

She cringes every time she hears him say COVID is no big deal, when he says the media "bastards" like CNN are running it into the ground and that we're tired of hearing about COVID.  

Instead of minute by minute news about Trump and his latest grievances and polls, the media should cover more families of victims of this disease.  I wish we'd hear their names and stories and realize that every one of the 223,000+ fatalities are linked to real people, people like Everett.

A day or two ago, scientists were interviewed about the treatment Trump had--which he promised to "give to all Americans for free."

"That's not going to happen," one doctor said.  "Trump 's treatment has to be administered intravenously.  Everyone who gets it would have a co-pay of two to ten thousand dollars. It is totally impossible to think that it would ever be free--or even available, to thousands of people who need it."