Not wanting to devote any more of his June Last Week Tonight episodes to governmental failures, John Oliver instead ended the month by going after Trump’s porcelain vice-lackey Mike Pence, who claimed last week that the administration effectively “flattened the curve” of the coronavirus and was able to “stand up the resources” to prevent further spread. Oliver, and fundamental clinical insight, have to disagree. “The U.S. is now setting records for daily brand-new cases as the infection rises around the nation, which makes it both surprising– and frankly, exasperating– that on Friday, the vice-president made this statement,” he said about Pence’s remarks.
” On top of that, Pence likewise notably left out wearing a mask from suggestions that he gave for slowing the spread of the infection,” Oliver continued, although the VP has now dominated his worry of face coverings and is advocating for their use. “And I will simply never ever understand why, or how, the Republicans have made ‘not spreading out illness’ into a culture-war issue.” It’s especially startling to Oliver, considered that he believes there was a “missed chance” for the celebration to act on. “You could have printed ‘Make America Great Again’ on a billion red masks and dropped them out of helicopters,” he described. “People would have worn them! You’re not even taking advantage of a nationwide disaster correctly, you fucking idiots!” Just think of all those plastic gloves searching for marketing. Or bottles of hand sanitizer. Or hazmat matches! This need to be precisely how Don Draper felt at the end of Mad Men
John Oliver on How Coronavirus Turned Into ‘a Culture War’
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