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THE BIG-STATE
LEADER
JAY INSLEE
GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON
Olympia, Washington
7.6 MILLION: State population
JANUARY 21: Date of the first confirmed
COVID-19 case in the U. S., a thirty-five-year-old
man in Snohomish County

AFTER OXYGEN, the most important thing
is human contact.
NOW WE’RE PHYSICALLY disconnected
from one another. The only weapon against
this virus at the moment cuts against ten thou-
sand generations of human society. That’s
why it’s such a devious beast.
WE’ VE HAD considerable success in our
early efforts with social distancing. There’s
been massive support for these efforts, even
though they’re extremely difficult. We have
shown grit and resilience and a commitment
to one another. And we’ve shown a very
strong commitment to science, to making
decisions based on data, not ideology.
T H E R E S E E M S T O be no bottom with
Donald Trump.
2 0 L I V E S , YOU ALWAYS THINK he’s reached it—vio-
lating every concept of humanity, empathy,
2 0 P E R S P E C T I V E S
and truthfulness—and there’s just no bottom.
He continues to astound us with his accep- Top: “Fire Brigade,” which Inslee, a doodler,
drew on planning documents before his April 21
tance of outright deception. announcement about mass testing and contact
tracing, a process that he’s compared to a fire
LET ME GIVE you an example. Larry Hogan brigade. Bottom: “Grandson,” a portrait
is the Republican governor of Maryland. He’s of the governor’s grandson Chase. The whole
family keeps in touch via daily video chats.
been doing some good work for his state.
He’s chairman of the National Governors
Association. He’s been trying to get Trump
to understand that we need more test kits
so we can do more testing. Trump in his LOOK, THERE’S ENORMOUS frustration
W H A T press conference yesterday said that Larry and economic dislocation. Every Washingto-
didn’t know how to get testing going in his nian feels it. But let me do the math here, hold
state, that Maryland has a whole bunch of on just a second—okay. About one in three
W E ’ R E labs that Larry didn’t know about. Larry thousand citizens has joined Trump’s crusade
knows about those labs. Nobody can do the on science.
tests because we don’t have kits. Larry’s T H E O T H E R 9 9. 8 percent want to save
LEARNING been telling Trump for weeks, and instead their families from dying of COVID-19.
of listening to him, Trump goes out and lies. —As told to Eric Sullivan
About a Republican governor!
N OW, T H AT S HOWS you the depths of COURTESY SUBJECTS
depravity and deceitfulness and outright inhu-
manity of this person in the White House.

56 SUMMER 2020