10/08/2020

My dear Friend, DJT,

            What are your recollections of learning your multiplication facts? Was one especially difficult to retrieve? Perhaps, like many, you weren’t sure if 6 x 9 was 56 or 54. Perhaps you didn’t bother to learn your facts & just copied the kid next to you. Lots of kids do that. I ask because my pre-service teachers & I will be talking about alternatives to the dreaded “Mad Minute” when children hold their breath as they furiously write down every fact they know. I’m looking forward to it.

I enjoyed watching your video where you sang the praises of Regeneron. You were so enthusiastic, I wanted to run out & take some REGN-COV2, just so I could be as peppy as you. It felt a bit like a sales job, though, & made me wonder why you attributed your rapid recovery to that specific therapy. As a social scientist, I have to remind you that correlation does not mean causation. Just because you happened to take REGN-COV2 & feel better, does not mean that REGN-COV2 cured you. Your anti-bodies might have done the trick. Or, you may, in fact, still be fighting CV & your energy may be coming from the dexamethasone you’re on. Isn’t it funny that you were asking JRB to take a drug test before the debate given how many drugs you’re on right now?

Your enthusiasm for REGN-COV2 made much more sense when I saw in the Guardian that Lenny Schliefer, founder of Regneron, belongs to your golf club & has been hawking his antibody cocktail to you for several months. Do you own some stock in the company? I wish I did. Share prices have doubled since Jan.

Some final thoughts – don’t rescue United Airlines. That company needs to fold. Give the pilots & flight attendants some $$, but let the company perish. Please join GRB Packers couch LeFleur in encouraging folks in WI to wear their masks & send some REGN-COV2 to the new Milwaukee field hospital so patients can get out of there quickly. Reconsider the virtual debate. I was not a fan of virtual teaching & I’m warming up to it.

HYITL,