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If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ve probably heard that the state of Mississippi has now revoked the official status of its state flag, which has the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia in the upper left-hand corner. All Mississippi state flags flying outside government buildings are set to be taken down within the next fifteen days and a commission has been set up to design a new flag for the state.I was reading about this news and it got me thinking about other state flags. I started looking up state flags and realized that there are some other states that could really stand to change their flags too. Here’s a quick run-down of some of the states that I think need to change their flags the most.Basic rules of flag designFirst, let’s talk about how you can tell a flag is bad. The North American Vexillological Association has a list of five rules for how to make a good flag, which are as follows:“Keep it simple: The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory.”“Use meaningful symbolism: The flag’s images, colors, or patterns should relate to what it symbolizes.”“Use 2–3 basic colors: Limit the number of colors on the flag to three, which contrast well and come from the standard color set.”“No lettering or seals: Never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal.”“Be distinctive or be related: Avoid duplicating other flags, but use similarities to show connections.”American state flags are notoriously bad about breaking rules one, three, and four. Many American state flags are simply composed of the state seal in front of a background of a solid color. Vexillologists absolutely loathe these flags and sometimes derogatorily refer to them as “seal-and-bedsheet flags.”Many state flags also have the name of the state they represent written on them in huge block lettering. Vexillologists generally detest these flags as well. Here is the North American Vexillological Association’s explanation for why flags should not have lettering or seals:“Words defeat the purpose: why not just write “U.S.A.” on a flag? A flag is a graphic symbol. Lettering is nearly impossible to read from a distance, hard to sew, and difficult to reduce to lapel–pin size. Words are not reversible—this forces double– or triple–thickness fabric.”“Don’t confuse a flag with a banner, such as what is carried in front of a marching band in a parade, or draped behind a speaker’s platform—such banners don’t flap, they are seen from only one side, and they’re usually seen closer–up.”‘Seals were designed for placement on paper to be read at close range. Very few are effective on flags—too detailed. Better to use some element from the seal as a symbol. Some logos work; most don’t.”In addition to these aesthetic guidelines, flags should be designed with cultural awareness. They should be designed to minimize obvious negative associations and to inspire positive feelings towards the state that the flag is supposed to represent. They should not promote racism or contain depictions of racial stereotypes.A new flag for MississippiWith these considerations in mind, let’s talk about the flag of Mississippi. From an aesthetics standpoint, the flag is relatively well-designed; the design is simple, it’s easy to recognize, it only uses three colors, and it doesn’t contain any letters or seals. The only problem is that it contains the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which pretty much ruins everything.Technically, the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia was never actually adopted by the Confederacy as an official national flag. Nonetheless, it remains the most recognizable symbol of the Confederacy today and it is commonly referred to as “the Confederate flag.” As a result of its association with the Confederacy, this flag is inextricably associated with slavery and white supremacy.Georgia used to have the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia in its state flag, but the Georgia General Assembly minimized it in 2001 and removed it altogether in 2003, leaving Mississippi as the last remaining state to include the Confederate saltire as part of its state flag. People called on Mississippi for years to remove it, but the Mississippi state government did not listen.Then, finally, on 28 June 2020, the Mississippi state legislature passed a bill to get rid of the old state flag and establish a commission to design a new state flag that will not include the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. Instead, the bill stipulates that the new flag must include the motto “In God We Trust.” Two days later, on evening of 30 June, Governor Tate Reeves signed the bill into law. This means that Mississippi is officially getting a new flag.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Mississippi_(2001–2020).svg) of Mississippi’s old state flag, the one that it has now officially gotten rid ofPersonally, I hope that Mississippi eventually adopts the Hospitality Flag, which was designed in 2014 by the Mississippi artist Laurin Stennis as a replacement for the old Mississippi flag. This flag not have any Confederate symbols on it. It has a relatively simple, yet striking design. It’s also easily recognizable from a distance and it doesn’t have any writing or seals on it.Unfortunately, the law signed by Governor Reeves stipulates that the new Mississippi state flag must include the motto “In God We Trust,” so it looks like, at least for now, the state of Mississippi isn’t going to adopt Stennis’s design—or at least they aren’t going to adopt it without modification.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stennis-flag-Mississippi-proposal.svg) of the Hospitality Flag, designed in 2014 by Mississippi artist Laurin StennisMassachusettsMississippi is far from the only state that has a highly problematic flag. Most notably, the current flag of the state of Massachusetts has all sorts of problems as well. The flag is composed of the Massachusetts state seal plopped in the middle of a white background. The seal in the center of the flag depicts a stereotypical native American man with feathers tied behind his head who looks very similar to the man in the logo for the Boston Redskins. Directly above the native man’s head, there is a disembodied arm clothed in a long sleeve brandishing a European-style broadsword.Officially speaking, the native American man on the seal is supposed to represent peace, because he has his bow turned to the side and his arrow is pointing downward. Likewise, the disembodied arm brandishing the broadsword is officially supposed to represent how the United States won its independence from Britain through the American Revolution.If you examine the seal from a different perspective, though, it looks as though it is representing the conquest and subjugation of the native peoples of North America by Europeans. The sword, which clearly belongs to a European colonizer, is looming ominously over the native man’s head and the native man has his bow turned away and his arrow pointing down as a sign of submission to his colonialist overlords.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg) of the current flag of MassachusettsThe flag is even more racist when you consider its history; although the current version of the Massachusetts seal portrays the native American man wearing a tunic, in an older version, he is naked with only leaves covering his genitals, thus representing the European colonists’ view that the native peoples of North America were ignorant savages who lacked civilization and didn’t even wear clothing.In some early versions of the seal, the native man is also portrayed with a scroll coming out of his mouth that reads: “Come over and help us,” thus portraying the European colonists as merciful benefactors working to “help” the native peoples by forcing them to convert to Christianity and forcing them to adopt European culture.ABOVE: Early version of the seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from before 1780, showing the native American man naked, with a scroll coming out of his mouth that reads, “Come over and help us.”People have been calling on Massachusetts to change its state flag and seal for years. Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing first introduced a bill for the flag and seal to be revised in 1984 and his bill has been introduced in every session of the Massachusetts state legislature ever since then. Despite this, no proposal to revise the flag and seal has ever been approved and the flag and seal have both remained completely unchanged.The irony is that Massachusetts already has an excellent official state flag that isn’t racist, but they aren’t using it for anything. The Massachusetts naval ensign is a white flag with the simple green shape of a pine tree in the center. It’s a simple, distinctive flag that’s easily recognizable from a distance and doesn’t have any writing on it. It’s also based on the famous “Pine Tree Flag” that was used throughout New England during the American Revolution, meaning it has a proud history behind it.Unfortunately, since Massachusetts doesn’t have its own navy, the naval ensign is used for… well, just about nothing. I think Massachusetts should ditch the racist flag with the sword and the native American stereotype and just adopt the naval ensign as the official flag for the whole state.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naval_Ensign_of_Massachusetts.svg) of the naval ensign of MassachusettsABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg) of the “Pine Tree Flag,” a flag that was used in New England during the American RevolutionMinnesotaMississippi and Massachusetts are probably the worst offenders when it comes to racist flags, but they are far from the only ones. For instance, let’s take a close look at the current flag of the state of Minnesota. It’s another one of those awful seal-and-bedsheet flags that vexillologists hate; the flag is nothing but the state seal of Minnesota plopped on a blue background.If you look closely at the state seal on the flag, though, you’ll notice that there’s a stereotypical native American man wearing a feathered headdress riding on horseback in the background. Meanwhile, in the foreground, a white settler is plowing a field.It’s bad enough to have a stereotypical representation of a generic native American on your state flag; it’s even worse that the flag makes it seem as though the settlers and natives were living together, side-by-side in perfect peace and harmony. We all know that’s not how it really happened.The native American on horseback is officially supposed to represent Minnesota’s native inhabitants. I think it’s great that Minnesota wants to honor the native inhabitants of the state, but there are much better ways to give them representation on the state flag than this—ways that don’t involve stereotyping native people or whitewashing history.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Minnesota.svg) of the current flag of MinnesotaThe Minnesota state flag is so bad that, in 1989, the vexillologists William Becker and Lee Herold actually designed a new flag for the state, which is known as the “North Star Flag.” The flag won a contest hosted by the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2001 for the best design for a new Minnesota flag and it has been widely endorsed by Minnesota politicians.The North Star Flag is a much better flag than Minnesota’s current official flag. It’s distinctive. It makes good use of space. It has no writing or human figures on it. It’s simple and easy to draw. It has no details that can’t be seen from a distance. It’s an ideal flag.The flag even succeeds in representing Minnesota’s native inhabitants in a way that doesn’t involve blatant stereotyping; the waves on the flag are supposed to represent the Lakota phrase mní sóta, meaning “sky-tinted waters,” which is where the state of Minnesota receives its name.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minnesota_North_Star_Flag.svg) of the “North Star Flag,” a proposed replacement for the current Minnesota flagVirginiaRacism isn’t the only problem that beleaguers American state flags, though. For instance, the current flag of the state of Virginia isn’t really racist per se, but it is definitely problematic because it is unnecessarily violent.Like so many other American state flags, the flag of Virginia is a seal-and-bedsheet flag. It’s just the obverse of the Virginia state seal plopped on a blue background. Things get worse, though, once you see what the obverse of the Virginia state seal depicts; it shows the personification of virtue standing atop the sprawled-out corpse of a murdered tyrant.Virtue has her left breast uncovered and her left foot resting on the murdered tyrant’s chest. She is holding a spear, which she is pointing down at the tyrant’s body. The tyrant’s crown is lying toppled on the ground beside him. In his right hand, the dead tyrant is holding a whip and, in his left hand, he is holding a broken chain. The motto at the bottom reads “Sic semper tyrannis,” which means “Thus always to tyrants” in Latin.I understand that the image is supposed to symbolize the rejection of tyranny in all forms, but the eye-straining complexity of the seal and the sheer brutality of the scene depicted on it makes it completely unsuitable for a state flag. Virginia needs to get a new flag.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Virginia.svg) of the current flag of VirginiaFortunately, you can find a whole bunch of proposed replacements for the flag of Virginia on vexillology.fandom. Most of these flags keep the same theme of overthrowing tyranny, but represent it in far simpler, less graphic ways. Here are the three proposals that I think are the best.ABOVE: One proposal of a flag that could replace the current flag of the state of VirginiaABOVE: Another proposal of a flag that could replace the current flag of the state of VirginiaABOVE: Another proposal of a flag that could replace the current flag of the state of VirginiaWashingtonIn addition to the flags that are racist and the flags that are unnecessarily violent, there are also a lot of flags that simply aren’t representative. For instance, the current flag of the state of Washington is composed of a green background with the seal of the state of Washington, which is literally just a picture of George Washington’s face, plopped in the middle.I personally think that no human figure should ever appear on a state or national flag. A flag is supposed to represent the entire population of a state or country. No single human figure can ever represent the entire population of a state or country. Thus, anytime you put a human being on a flag, you are inevitably giving greater representation to some people than others.The flag of Washington state is especially problematic because the person on their flag is specifically George Washington—an ultra-wealthy straight white male who owned slaves, died over two hundred years ago, and notably never even set foot in the state of Washington.I’m not trying to bash George Washington here. I am not saying that he was a terrible person or that we shouldn’t honor him. I’m just saying that having his face as the flag of the state of Washington doesn’t really tell us anything about the state, its history, or the people who live there; all it tells us is “Hey, our state’s named after George Washington.” The people of Washington can do better.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Washington.svg) of the current flag of the state of WashingtonAnd a whole bunch of others…The states I have talked about here aren’t the only ones that I think should consider changing their state flags; they’re just the ones that I think need to change their flags the most. Personally, I think that any state that has a flag composed of the state seal in front of a solid color should seriously consider coming up with a flag design that is more distinctive and creative.There are way too many flags that are just the state seal in front of a blue background. States whose flags have this exact format include Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.Somehow, the unofficial flag of Palmyra Atoll, an uninhabited unorganized incorporated United States territory in the Pacific islands, is more aesthetically pleasing than about half the official flags of the actual U.S. states. You know you’ve got to step your game up when a few tiny islands covered in rocks and sand are beating you at flag design.ABOVE: Image from Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Palmyra_Atoll_(local).svg) of the unofficial flag of Palmyra Atoll, an uninhabited unorganized incorporated United States territory in the Pacific Islands(NOTE: I have also published a version of this article on my website titled “States That Should Change Their Flags.” Here is a link to the version of the article on my website.)

You’d have to tweak a lot of things first, and there would still be drawbacks to consider.Taxpayer-funded tuition encourages students to drop out.If somebody you don’t even know is paying for you to go to school, what harm is there in dropping out? It’s no responsibility of yours. Mr. Taxpayer, the Man with No Face, is footing the bill. “Free” college turns universities into high schools: no immediate financial penalty if you drop out, because you weren’t paying for it.The fact that the drop-out rate in “free” or low-cost community colleges in New York State is about 70% right now isn’t a good argument in favor of taxpayer-funded education. It’s an argument against it.The tweak: go ahead and drop out. But then you get a bill.The problem with the tweak? Americans with no degree, probably failing grades, and dismal career prospects are shackled with debt they won’t be able to pay off. And this was a solution?Alternative tweak: go ahead and institute taxpayer-funded college education, but make rigorous requirements for student admission. Only students with a good plan get in.The problem with that tweak? It defeats half the purpose of “free college,” which is to expand education to a maximum number of people.Taxpayer-funded college paradoxically encourages students to get in debt.Since tuition is often the least expensive part of an education, you’d have to make sure that we’re not just talking about taxpayer-funded tuition. At the in-state level, tuition isn’t really the problem.Average annual tuition is $9,970 a year at the in-state level. Out-of-state tuition + an apartment and food is what really gets you up to your eyeballs in debt: the average out-of-state tuition is $25,000 a year. (At the University of Michigan, it’s about $50,000. Every year.) Private colleges, like Harvard, are a different issue, because they probably won’t ever be funded by taxpayer dollars.Once you encourage not-serious students to go to school — and especially if you don’t pay the cost of their apartment and food — chances are, a lot of them will still take out loans for living expenses. You still have to have money to eat, even if your tuition is covered. Then when they drop out, they have to pay that back: paying interest on milk and eggs. Except… they don’t have a degree and skills. They have dismal employability. For them, “free” college is a poverty factory.The tweak: you only qualify for taxpayer-funded education if you major in a field with good employment prospects. Eighteen-year-olds who think they can build a career studying Philosophy with a minor in The X-Files won’t get taxpayers’ money, for their own financial good.When it comes to available jobs, demand doesn’t always follow supply.Some people with PhDs from Harvard already have trouble finding work, or at least the work they want. A PhD from Harvard probably doesn’t want to teach in South Dakota, but that might be what they have to do.It’ll be the same on an undergraduate level. The U.S. job market is pretty good right now, but I’ve talked to 22-year-old kids who say they fire off 75 resumes and cover letters a week and hear nothing back. Maybe their cover letters and job experience suck, but I have ten years of experience and a graduate degree under my belt and I’m in the same boat. Even having a graduate degree doesn’t mean you snap your fingers and get the job you want.Having 500,000 newly-minted undergrads who received taxpayer-funded tuition doesn’t mean there will be jobs commensurate with their education. Also, you’ll degrade the value of existing degrees. When everybody has one, they’re not that special. A Bachelor’s degree in 1960 was really something special. Not now.The student-to-teacher ratio will balloon.That diminishes the value of an education. It means students will be treated like numbers by education factories. Faculty with PhDs aren’t going to step up to the plate to teach Biology 101 and Basic Spanish, not at the really good schools. Those classes will be bursting at the seams.The tweak: hire more faculty and admit more grad students to teach introductory classes.The problem with the tweak: that’s more taxpayer dollars, and grad students often aren’t very good instructors. Some of them are just a year out of undergrad. They probably don’t teach as well as a veteran professor.You’ll start a housing crisis.College towns aren’t full of empty apartments and homes. Vulture-like landlords jack up rent, because landlords know they can feed off of loan sharks and universities handing out scholarships.When a glut of new students comes to small college towns to take advantage of new taxpayer-funded tuition — or maybe even taxpayer-funded room and board — rents will skyrocket, because there won’t be enough housing for people to live in.Who do you think will suffer? The same people progressives want to help: the poor, the elderly, the unemployed or underemployed, and people who work in the service industries. Free tuition is a nightmare scenario for low-income residents of college towns, where homes and apartments are already often barely affordable.The tweak: build big new student dorms.The problem with the tweak: even more cost to taxpayers. New dorms — not cheap.Unfortunately, this is what Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will bring about. They’re well-intentioned people, but incredibly naive.Bernie will offer his own tweak: “Get Wall Street to pay for it. Institute a tax on stocks and bonds.”To me, that’s just Bernie being a broken record. Wall Street paying for it will take some of the burden off other taxpayers, sure. But it won’t solve the other problems that “free” college tuition will create.The ultimate tweak, in my opinion, is just to bypass or reform the existing university system, which is expensive partly because:hospitals and medical schools run universities now, not the Classics Department (that’s so 19th century). Hospitals are expensive, and you know who walks away with the profit: the parasitical, bottom-feeding American insurance companies and the loan sharks.colleges have to compete for the best graduate students and faculty, so they offer more lucrative salaries and stipends, paid for on the backs of undergrads. Maybe we need a better solution to this.students want fancy stuff: new dorms, new gyms, flashy stuff around campus. ($$$$$$)college sports: that new football stadium wasn’t free.Reform all this, and you won’t have to worry about making college education “free.” Because this is why college education is so expensive.Taxpayer-funded eduation is just a distraction from the real problems. But as usual, some progressives are just in favor of a bandaid. A.k.a., “It sounds nice, so hell, let’s do it.”

[Answered, on July 2, 2020.]What did the United States do wrong?A timeline:[Donald Trump was first warned of Covid-19 that was in one area of China, by US intelligence agencies, in late November. Trump ignored these warnings.][The entire planet was warned, by legitimate journalists, throughout December, as they covered China’s response. Donald Trump ignored all of those warnings.][The World Health Organization privately warned Donald Trump, in writing, on December 31. Trump ignored that warning.][Trump was warned by the CDC three times, in January, and a fourth time, on January 19. On January 20, the World Health Organization warned the entire world that this disease was being spread human-to-human, and that it appeared it would probably reach pandemic levels. Trump ignored that warning.]Then –January 23 -- “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” [Donald Trump, January 22.]February 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” [Donald Trump, February 2.]February 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” [Donald Trump, February 24.]February 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” [Donald Trump, February 25.]February 25 - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” [Donald Trump, February 25.]February 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” [Donald Trump, February 26.]February 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” [Donald Trump, February 26.]February 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” [Donald Trump, February 27.]February 28 - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” [Donald Trump, February 28.]March 2 -- “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Donald Trump, March 2.]March 2 -- “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” [Donald Trump, March 2.]March 4 -- “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” [Donald Trump, March 4.]March 5 -- “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” [Donald Trump, March 5.]March 5 -- “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” [Donald Trump, March 5.]March 5 -- “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” [Donald Trump, March 5.]March 6 -- “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]March 6 -- “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]March 6 -- “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]March 8 -- “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” [Donald Trump, March 8.]March 12-- "But it'll be -- it'll go away very quickly." [Donald Trump, March 12.]March 12-- "You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done. We've stopped it." [Donald Trump, March 12.]March 12-- "Let's put it this way, I'm not concerned, OK?" [Donald Trump, March 12.]March 13 – “I am officially declaring a national emergency." A national emergency. Those are two very big words.” [Donald Trump, March 13.]March 14 – “As of this moment we have 50 deaths, which is — a lot of good decisions were made, or that number could be many times that. But that’s based on a lot of good decisions, one or two in particular.”March 15 – “"My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating and drinking in bars, restaurants, and public food courts.”March 20 – (Reporter: “What do you say to Americans who are scared?”) Donald Trump: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter, that’s what I say!” [Donald Trump, March 20.]March 21 – “We’re giving relief to affected industries and small businesses, and we’re ensuring that we emerge from this challenge with a prosperous and growing economy because that’s what’s going to happen. It’s going to pop. One day, we’ll be standing, possibly up here, and we’ll say, “Well, we won.” And we’re going to say that. As sure as you’re sitting there, we’re going to say that. And we’re going to win, and I think we’re going to win faster than people think, I hope.” [Donald Trump March 21.]March 24 – “We are going to save American workers, and we’re going to save them quickly. And we’re going to save our great American companies, both small and large. This was a medical problem. We are not going to let it turn into a long-lasting financial problem. It started out as a purely medical problem, and it’s not going to go beyond that. We’re just not going to allow that to happen.” [Donald Trump March 24.]March 24 – “Our time comes up, Monday or Tuesday are the allotted two weeks, but we’ll stay a little bit longer than that. But we want to get open very soon. I think that was a big reason it’s gone up. I also think that the fact that the Senate and the House, we seem to be getting along as much as you can get along. We seem to be getting along now on a bill. I think that may be had even less of an impact and the fact that we’re opening up this incredible country because we have to do that. I’d love to have it open by Easter, okay. I would love to have it open by Easter. I will tell you that right now. I would love to have that. It’s such an important day for other reasons, but I’ll make it an important day for this too. I would love to have the country opened up and they’re just raring to go by Easter.” [Donald Trump March 24.](Easter, for the record – occurred on April 12, 2020.)March 28 – “Question, from a reporter: “You’ve suggested that some of these governors are not doing everything they need to do, and suggested that these governors are at fault. Can you be specific? What more, in this time of a national emergency, should these governors be doing? So what I’m asking is: What more, specifically, do you want the governor of Washington and the governor of Michigan to be doing?”Answer from Donald Trump:” “All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative. And I think the governor, who’s a failed presidential candidate, as you know — he — he leveled out at zero in the polls. He’s constantly chirping and — I guess “complaining” would be a nice way of saying it. We’re building hospitals. We’ve done a great job for the state of Washington. Michigan, all she does is — she has no idea what’s going on. And all she does is say, “Oh, it’s the federal government’s fault. All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative. I don’t want them to say things that aren’t true. I want them to be appreciative. We’ve done a great job.” [Donald Trump, March 28.]March 30 – “The vaccines are moving along very rapidly. The vaccines are an answer, but I’d like to see if we could do something therapeutically so that we could take care of the people that are already sick. I want to point out that the hydroxychloroquine is being administered to 1,100 patients — people in New York.” [Donald Trump, March 29.](Side Note -- The hydroxychloroquine “study” Trump refers to -which he will later officially order his staff to begin – had not begun, as of March 30. It did begin, in April, after Trump publicly said “I want to see that done.” That hydroxychloroquine study has now already ceased, after too many test patients died, or suffered coronary attacks.)April 7 – “America performs more tests than other nations and that is probably why we have more cases. We have done over 1.8 million tests.”(Side Note: both statements are absolute lies. As to the issue of “more tests,” the statement is wrong, regardless of whether one uses real numbers, or per capita numbers. As to the total number of tests, it was not 1.8 million. It was actually less than 750,000 – the official tally on April 7 is 758.964 tests conducted.)As I write this – there are now more than 2,686,258 confirmed cases in the United States. As I am writing this, there have been at least 128,062 confirmed deaths in the U.S. due to Covid-19.Those are real human beings.Both of those numbers, are more than double the number of any other nation (Brazil, is running a weak second place).But remember -- “February 25 - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… ” [Donald Trump, February 25.]February 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” [Donald Trump, February 26.]The election is in five months.Vote.