{"id":176489,"date":"2021-02-26T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176489"},"modified":"2021-02-26T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:28:55","slug":"usa-today-columnist-bury-the-500000-covid-19-dead-at-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-columnist-bury-the-500000-covid-19-dead-at-mar-a-lago\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Columnist: \u2018Bury The 500,000 COVID-19 Dead At Mar-a-Lago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-today-columnist-bury-the-500000-covid-19-dead-at-mar-a-lago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/arl-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More than 500,000 Americans have reportedly died from COVID-19 and one columnist wants them all buried at former President Donald Trump\u2019s golf resort home in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Though more than 100,000 of those deaths occurred after President Joe Biden took office, Jason Sattler of USA Today thinks he deserves the blame for all of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cHow can we honor the more than half-million Americans\u00a0who<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2020\/04\/coroner-first-us-covid-19-death-occurred-early-february\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\"|inline|intext|n\/a\">\u00a0<\/a>lost their lives to COVID-19 while marking former President Donald Trump\u2019s shameless failure to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend\u201d this country and its Constitution?\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/02\/22\/trump-legacy-bury-half-million-covid-dead-mar-a-lago-column\/4535394001\/\">wrote<\/a> this week. \u201cEasy. Let\u2019s bury the dead at Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sattler says there is precedent for such a move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis small measure of justice would have an obvious historical precedent. Arlington, the former home of Robert E. Lee that is now Arlington National Cemetery, became a final\u00a0resting place for Union soldiers in the spring 1864\u00a0\u2014 after 82,000 soldiers died in one month of fighting. Who could argue this wasn\u2019t a just punishment? Lee had abandoned his post in the U.S. Army to lead the army of what Frederick Douglass called the \u2018slaveholders\u2019 rebellion.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sattler claims Trump incited the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, adding that \u201cyou cannot dissect the ex-president\u2019s incitement against Congress, his vice president and our constitutional order from his monstrous approach to the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The writer says Trump \u201cactively took steps that spread the virus, endangering millions\u201d and adds that the former president is responsible for \u201ccosting one member of the Secret Service part of his leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Sattler points to comments Trump made in the early days of the pandemic, when not much was known about the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning in March, Trump silenced the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and continually offered rosy predictions that undermined caution, even as America was hitting a peak of deaths and cases that dwarfed the carnage the country experienced in April,\u201d Sattler wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, however, Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served on Trump\u2019s White House Coronavirus Task Force and is now President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, said \u201cthere\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it\u2019s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is,\u201d the doctor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/preventing-coronavirus-facemask-60-minutes-2020-03-08\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0on CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>A week before that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had toured San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown to send a message and said there\u2019s no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of coronavirus concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do today is to say everything is fine here,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cCome because precautions have been taken. The city is on top of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the response to the virus has been evolving since then. Soon after Fauci made his comments, experts, including the CDC, said Americans <em>should<\/em>\u00a0wear masks, citing estimates that 40% or more of those infected were asymptomatic but could still spread the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Sattler concludes by saying Trump \u201cenabled\u201d the deaths from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies of COVID-19 victims who cannot afford a decent burial should be offered a chance for their loved ones to become permanent members of Mar-a-Lago, without paying the\u00a0$200,000 membership fee Trump doubled when he \u2018won\u2019 the presidency. \u2026 We should bury as many of them as we can at Mar-a-Lago, until every foot of the property is occupied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201c[A] revamped Mar-a-Lago filled with the literal reminders of the death Trump enabled and mocked would be a just monument to a monumental disaster of a presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500,000 Americans have reportedly died from COVID-19 and one columnist wants them all buried at former President Donald Trump\u2019s golf resort home in Florida. 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