When Hitler decided the war was lost and the German people had deserted him, he told the military to destroy everything as they retreated. He was telling his army to destroy Germany’s infrastructure and factories as punishment for not following him to the death.

            Today America is facing a scorched earth policy of a viral kind. Trump is not only not allowing the incoming Biden team access to intelligence briefs and the usual coordination, but he has refused to allow the incoming viral team to work with his outgoing team. He walked away from his own team in May when the polls showed he was far behind. This lack of transition coordination means the Biden team must put in their own plans and hope they don’t conflict too much with outgoing plans. Such conflict will result in delays on getting the Covid 19 vaccine to the people.

            Trump has said it is up to the states now to decide what they want to do with the virus. He has completely walked away from it and left it up to governors of each state instead of co-ordinating a policy. He knows he hailed and doesn’t care.

            His punishment for deserting him is sickness and death. What is interesting is his followers are the ones without masks and social distancing. They will be the ones suffering the most just as Hitler demanded of his army and people. Dying for one’s leader’s is stupid.