I have a dim memory, somewhere back in time, when presidential administrations made decisions that, however bad they were, at least reflected some semblance of coherent policy.

Unfortunately, In the face of the worst public health disaster ever facing the American people, this bumbling amalgamation of fools fails even that basic parameter.

Vice President Mike Pence has walked back its decision to restrict top health experts from appearing on CNN in an effort to pressure the network into airing the daily White House coronavirus task force briefings in full. Pence’s office reversed course Thursday afternoon after CNN reported that morning that his office would only permit experts such as Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear on the network on the condition that it airs the portion of the briefings featuring the vice president and other coronavirus task force members.

Doubtlessly, the “decision,” so much as there was one, to spitefully exclude CNN from receiving information from the nation's top public health experts was an ill-advised, mercurial whim of a mentally unbalanced executive. But this abrupt reversal is just as telling an indicator of an administration's mired in incompetence and dysfunction.

We are dealing not simply with a ship not of fools, but a ship of completely useless and dangerous idiots, being captained by a malevolent, disturbed monster:

x The Wall Street Journal always Ã¢ÂÂforgetsÃ¢ÂÂ to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are Ã¢ÂÂthrough the roofÃ¢ÂÂ (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News! Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 9, 2020

We’re on our own, facing this horrific pandemic. But it can, and will, be beaten and defeated.

Use your own best judgment, based on sound science and people and governmental officials that you really, really trust. Use everything you’ve got, in terms of reason, experience, and analysis, and apply it now.

We need to understand that, going forward, we will beat this, push it back, destroy it--because all of our lives depend on it.

That’s all.