Please, Dear Lord, spare us Donald Trump.

This man wants to “have the county opened up and just raring to go, by Easter.” This against the every advice of every single health authority in this country. Not just some authorities. All of them. They all say the same thing: lifting guidelines on business shutdowns and social distancing are wrong.

Trump compares the number of people dying in the virus to the number of people who die in car accidents, pointing out that far more people die in cars, yet no one suggests ceasing the manufacture of vehicles. Is that the thinking of a diseased mind or just a stupid one?

Trump’s words are working against the words from governors and mayors and health officials who say he is making their life-saving jobs more difficult.

Let’s face it: Trump just wants the economy working because that’s his only hope for re-election. If the economy stays tanked, he’s tanked, too. So people become a sacrificial commodity – there’s no evidence he cares about people dying, not if he can get the economy re-ignited quickly by any means. That’s criminal thinking not to mention considering it in ethical or moral terms.

And then there’s the facts that he doesn’t understand. Really, he doesn’t understand. He lacks the intelligence to comprehend that when he says that during the 1918 flu epidemic people had a 50-50 chance of dying it’s wrong. The fatality rate for people in that epidemic was around 2 to 2.5 per cent. Not 50-50 possibilities.

He is disgracing the office and the common sense of the American people.