Melania Trump wearing a jacket that reads “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?”.
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I Really Don’t Care, Do U?

When the president gets coronavirus

Matt H
Published in
2 min readOct 2, 2020

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The President and the First Lady of the United States have COVID-19.

They really didn’t care when they promoted reopening schools resulting in at least 21,000 cases.

They really didn’t care when Black people were 4.7 times as likely as white people to be hospitalized by coronavirus.

Graph showing that coronavirus disproportionately hospitalizes Black people in the United States.
Image from: CDC

They really didn’t care when there were outbreaks in ICE detention camps because of inhumane conditions that have been happening much longer than this virus.

They really didn’t care when health care workers were exposing themselves to the virus every day without the proper PPE.

A health care professional wearing a trash bag for PPE.
Image from: TIME

They really didn’t care when prison inmates were twice as likely to die from coronavirus than those who aren’t in prison.

They really didn’t care when the Navajo Nation had the highest infection rate per capita in the country.

And they really didn’t care when the United States reached over 206,000 reported coronavirus deaths, more than any other country.

Graphs showing the seven-day average coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States.
Image from: BBC

So it’s true. I really don’t care that the POTUS and FLOTUS tested positive for coronavirus, do u?

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Matt H
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Millennial international educator interested in science, the environment, politics, social justice, and language learning.