You can tell that those suffering the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are at their wits end. How else can you explain two recent letters to this paper wherein the first states there is no evidence that the Wuhan flu came from China and blames Trump for the virus, the second nothing more than a nauseating list of childish invective against the current President, repeated at regular weekly intervals by the same writer who apparently believes that if he states it often enough somebody might believe it.

We can only assume that both of these malcontents would prefer one of the two latest democrat offerings to fill the office, perhaps the one who has shown signs of early onset dementia, the one who under the Obama regime failed to replace all the treatment facilities after the swine flu (H1N1) that sickened 60 million and killed 12,500 people in 2009-2010, and the one who after being appointed by Obama in his 2012 State of the Union speech to be the Cancer czar, never had even one meeting on the subject.

Or maybe they would prefer a governor of the highest taxed state in the nation, one where 150,000 people are leaving annually, who is now crying for more federal support to cover his failings. The first letter writer, while blaming Trump for “sitting on his hands” in response to this mess and ignoring the fact that the President was doing his job by shutting down Chinese travel back in January, 2 days after the first US case was diagnosed , fails to mention that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after learning that the state’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, came to a fork in the road in 2015. The Governor could have chosen to buy more ventilators. Instead, he asked his health commissioner, Howard Zucker to assemble a task force and draft rules for rationing the ventilators they already had. Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece ($576 million), but he decided there was a higher priority. He needed $750 million for a boondoggle, a now-defunct “Buffalo Billion” solar panel factory. Such waste is evidence of what we could expect of the decision-making coming from career politicians.

Now adding insult to injury , the results of latest polling give Trump a 50% approval rating and another where 60% approve of his handling of this pandemic. I suggest that family members of these two TDS writers remove all sharp objects from their households. Let’s hope that when Trump is re-elected he appoints the most chain-saw cost cutting advisors he can find to rip out as much of the Washington swamp as he can. Promises made, promises kept.