A pandemic of historical proportions, a Grim Reaper that is accelerating the pace at which it is indiscriminately sending Americans to early graves: black and white; old and young; male and female. We are all in the danger zone, each one of us capable of lethally infecting the other. Yet our president ignores science and is missing in action. And our governor? Exercising astonishingly poor judgment, he is actually suing Atlanta’s mayor because she has the courage, compassion, and conviction to take steps that demonstrably saves lives. We’re talking about life and death.

In 1935, Winston Churchill stood in the House of Commons and warned his country that it was not sufficiently prepared to respond to the growing German threat. In his speech he recalled a ghoulish poem that captures the growing despair so many Americans now feel with a commander-in-chief who has gone AWOL as the gathering storm now has unleashed itself in full destructive force: “Who’s in charge of the clattering train? The axles creak and the couplings strain; And the pace is hot and the points are near, And sleep has deadened the driver’s ear; And the signals flash through the night in vain, For death is in charge of the clattering train.”

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