Rats and fleas

Trump rode out in a sealed SUV to wave at supporters, putting the driver and Secret Service agents in the car with him at risk of infection.  He left the hospital prematurely and ostentatiously removed his mask before re-entering the White House, to endanger the maids, butlers, and other staff who cannot work from home.  Pence, who has been exposed and should be in quarantine, continues to campaign and even resisted having a plexiglass screen at the VP debate.  Lindsey Graham refused to have one at his Senate race debate -- so Democrat Jaime Harrison brought his own.

Other officials and spokespeople for this "administration" have skipped precautions when talking to the media (BuzzFeed has pulled its reporter from what has become a cesspit of disease).  They've refused to cooperate with contact tracing of people at the announcement event for Coathanger Coney, which seems to have triggered this outbreak that has infected at least three dozen members of Trump's inner circle so far.  Republicans are still trying to ram Coney's confirmation through before the election, even though some Republican senators are infected and their presence could endanger colleagues.  The top leadership of the US military has had to go into quarantine due to possible exposure by these idiots, compromising national security.

And this dingbat moronically declared it mysterious that so many Republican leaders are getting the virus while so few Democratic ones are.  I think we all know the answer.  Republicans as a party reject science and the precautions it prescribes, while Democrats adhere to them.  It's a textbook case of natural selection in action.

Trump and his gang have long contributed to the spread of covid-19 by downplaying it in public statements and convincing their legions of ignorant knuckle-draggers to scorn precautions.  Now they've escalated to themselves, personally, becoming disease vectors.

Like the callous religionists whose insistence on holding in-person church events has been a major driver of the pandemic, Trump and his officials and toadies have become rats and fleas of this plague.

Take what comfort you can from the knowledge that they will pay for this.  Many senior Republican leaders, like Trump himself, are old and fat -- highly vulnerable to death or permanent organ damage.  But they will take many innocents down with them.