Six months ago, my father died from Covid-19. He was 74 years old when he contracted it, the same age as the President. He had no underlying conditions, could still haul a full keg of beer up a flight of stairs. /1

When he got sick, he did not get flown in a helicopter to the hospital. He did not receive experimental antibody treatments, or remdesivir, or powerful steroids. He was not treated by a team of doctors. /2

He died alone, after eleven days on a ventilator. We did not get a chance to see him, or speak to him. We did not see his body before it was cremated. We haven't been able to hold a wake, or a funeral mass. /3

Last night, one of my daughters asked when she would see Grandpa. She understands that's he's dead but thought she'd get a chance to see his body again. My wife had to explain that she wouldn't, that his body was now ashes. /4

Like the President, my father was a son of New York City. Unlike the President, he served in the military, was sent to Vietnam for seven weeks, even though he wasn't supposed to go to a combat zone, because he was the only son of a widow. /5

He wasn't conniving enough or connected enough to get an exemption for bone spurs. /6

As I write this, over 210,000 Americans have died from coronavirus, which means that well over a million Americans have lost a loved one. /7

We will never forget the utter incompetence of this administration. We will never forget the narcissistic buffoon in the Oval Office. We will never forget that he deliberately downplayed the deadliness of this virus, that he insisted it would go away, that he called it a hoax. /8

We will never forget those who enabled him: the sycophantic Senators, the lick-spittles at Fox News, the utterly corrupt and inept family members who never should have been given positions of power. /9

It did not have to be this way. The overwhelming majority of these deaths were preventable. My father was a Trump supporter and his reward was an early grave.

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