John Funiciello

What is being discovered in lock down is what is actually needed, and it's a lot less than what the average American has been consuming in recent decades. Americans have learned how to live with less, with frugality, as the millions of poor families have known as a way of life for generations.

What can anyone expect of someone who set out to destroy the federal government and most of its institutions?

it would be a shock if he were to say from that daily podium that black Americans are suffering from COVID-19 more than any others across the nation. His xenophobia and racism will not allow him to say the words, because his and his fellow Republicans' policies have helped, over generations, to provide the fertile ground for the virus to take hold in black and marginalized communities.

Why hasn't the U.S. discussed using the drug developed by Cuba and China? Likely, it's because U.S. pharmaceutical companies would not hold the patent, if one is possible, because it would be asking a small, communist-controlled nation for help, and because the current occupant of the White House is not competent to come up with new ideas about fighting the virus (or anything else), and because everything Trump does he does with an eye toward either reelection or making a profit somewhere, somehow.

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same.

Trump sees the coronavirus as a plot to undermine his perceived cruise to a second term and he, unbelievably, blames the Democrats and the news media for the outbreak and for the fact that he can only come up with a limited number of test kits in a nation of 325 million. That just won't cut it in keeping the virus in check or even just keep track of it.

Not only does the U.S. president want people, young and old, to go to bed hungry, he wants them to be cold or freeze to death in place.

Most of Trump's most egregious acts have been the result of his racial and ethnic bias, despite what he continually claims, that he is the least racist person in the world. His acts and words have proven the opposite. His deportation force and executive orders have shown that the Border Patrol raids on homes in sanctuary cities is just the beginning.