Then he spoke afterwards. And, no, in the current culture, it is not easy for a politician to minimize COVID, at all. Do you think it's better for a people to fear a disease and to believe that the only way we can endure and survive it is if we get others to vaccinate or do you believe it's better to tell people that they as individuals are very likely to overcome it if they contract it? We've operated on the former for a year and a half and the neurotic are more neurotic, even after vaccination. This is coupled with public scapegoating from the highest office and assigning blame, and categorizing millions of Americans as unpatriotic lowlifes who don't care about anyone else. Does that sound remotely like effective leadership? You understand quite well. It's weak, it's whiny, it's an elevation of vice over virtue, it's all the things that make any group of people, be it a business or a team or class or whatever, fail. It's childish. Notice that although I characterize this administration's behavior as one that is making this pandemic worse, I will not say something stupid, like, "Biden and his lackeys are killing people! They have blood on their hands because they prompt more Americans to not get the vaccine with their language and behavior!" That's the kind of irrational, emotive theater stuff that saturates our matriarchal age and elevates vices rather than virtues.