Opinion The covid-19 Class of 2020 began under the shadow of Trump, ends with global pandemic
Opinion
The covid-19 Class of 2020 began under the shadow of Trump, ends with global pandemic
Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg Published 11:35 am EDT, Monday, March 16, 2020
The Class of 2020 has been doubly cursed. They entered college in the late summer of 2016. A few months later their elders ushered Donald Trump into the presidency. Now their final weeks at school are a sad, sputtering fiasco of remote learning, social distancing and mounting dread. My own offspring, a senior, has generally made the best of her college experience...
... It's difficult to argue, under present circumstances, that the world is not speeding to hell in a designer handbasket. The crook and liar who entered the White House shortly after my daughter and her classmates entered college is presiding over a national disaster that highlights the blatant pathologies that made him unfit for the office in the first place. Given the opportunity to remove him, Republican senators instead protected him, preserving his capacity to mismanage and exacerbate a crisis that could lead to hundreds (thousands?) of deaths.
... Meanwhile, the texts from my daughter keep coming...she is concerned about those younger than herself. What happens to kids enrolled in school-lunch programs when their schools are shut down? How will they be fed? She suggests that we focus locally, where there are plenty of needy kids and we have a better chance of having a positive impact.
It's smart advice. The thought - and the impending need - hadn't occurred to me. I have been wallowing too much in outrage. Though I'm heartened by her capacity to think positively and pragmatically at such a time, I can't quite bring myself to tell her that things will turn out OK. The Class of 2020 is graduating into an epidemic, in a nation governed by a conservative political party that is itself deeply sick.
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