The Prescience of the Obvious

Received by The Corvallis Gazette Times June 6, 2020

Printed and posted June 16, 2020

July 1, 2020

Because of a reversal of all trends related to Covid 19, Oregon governor Kate Brown mandated masks in public for all. No exceptions. By my reckoning, just in time, because masks had grown conspicuously absent at a rate similar to Oregon's Covid statistics.

Oregon per Johns Hopkins University

This page was last updated on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 3:00 AM EDT

Per The New York Times

 
The simplest precaution has morphed into a libertarian cause célèbre. At the grocer's just last Monday, many, many went maskless, evidently beating the drum for so-called liberty. P.T. Barnum somewhere smugly smiles.

What has he got to lose?

The Emperor's New Bible

Then, this happened...

June 1, 2020 - Tear Gas Used to Remove Crowd for Photo-Op Across from White House

SHARPIE-GATE

What's next: Trump's signature on the stimulus check?

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Since you seem bound and determined to air Trump's daily thing live and then fact-check later, might I suggest recording the events and airing them with an immediate fact check. It is approaching the absurd to call you "news" in the great tradition of NBC News we grew up on. Propaganda works when not conjoined with reality.

Thank you,
Stacey Youdin
Corvallis, OR