It's not as though the Mayors and Governors, exploiting the situation to institute emergency dictatorships, didn't do their best to swell the numbers when nursing homes were ordered to take in active Covid cases at the same time that the phrase "abundance of caution" was being invoked to quell concerns about the economies being shut down and healthy, law abiding citizens were ordered to stay at home. Without a credible excuse of ignorance as to the nature of the virus effects on the elderly and vulnerable populations being housed in those long term care facilities, I'm left to believe that the death count was an objective on the part of the leaders mandating that Covid cases be integrated with nursing home populations.

Now, in a normal world that would qualify as a crime against humanity and you can bet that if the President had issued such a directive the radical political left, mainstream media and Hollywood would have a synchronized bout of rehearsed vapors followed by renewed calls for his removal.

Minus a sincere concern for public health the masks appear to be little more than an instrument of control over the masses... a part of the mandatory game that we're being "asked" to play. We're all little more than bit players in crisis theater.