Trump Is Opening Churches, But Is This a Smart Move for Him?

Will this energize Trump’s base?  I suppose, but these are people who have already shown they believe their leader was sent by God to make America great again, and they couldn’t care less that Trump is a cruel, pathological liar, war-monger, dictator loving, sex abuser.  They would vote for him regardless of anything he says or does, no matter how vile, so what’s the upside here?

Yet there is a downside.  As has been shown in countless cases around the globe, failures to apply social distancing and to apply the other precautions triggers spikes in the pandemic.  Currently, it appears that Trump supporters have “drunk the Koolaid” and believe that the president has done a good job in containing the spread of the disease (even though, since February, the U.S. has led the world in COVID-19 deaths per day).

But what happens when there are localized COVID spikes associated with church-goers?  As shown here, this is happening around the world, and here, it seems just a matter of a couple of weeks in the future.

So what’s the wisdom here?