Trump’s COVID-19 Does Not Justify Medical Authoritarianism
President Donald Trump participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Oct. 4, 2020. Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour
The news whiplash that is 2020 whiplashed us again when President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, and hours later, was dramatically helicoptered to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for hospitalization. Even in a country bludgeoned by bad news since January, this seemed like flagrant overkill.
Wesley J. Smith
Author
Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
