The backstory of MOBY DICK is that Captain Ahab had once attacked a great white whale, which had then snapped off one of Arab's legs and gone on about its business. Ahab spends the rest of his life searching for the white whale to kill it.
Meanwhile the white whale swims along. It can't care less about Ahab. When Ahab finally finds the whale and attacks it, the huge, natural being kills him and nearly everyone in the vicinity and then swims on, unchanged.
Critics have argued about what the whale represents. Maybe the whale represents Mother Nature (indifferent to our fate) or it represents God, equally indifferent.
Just keep out of the way.
The coronavirus is, to a small, partial degree, tRump's white whale. The virus may be tiny but it is indifferent to the powerful President and his crew and unmoved by incoherent bullshit. Lies about a virus have no impact on it. The President's strength--misrepresenting reality--is irrelevant. As with global warming, white-wingers pretending the whale doesn't matter will not change the outcome.
Just keep out of the way.
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