What if and slapping Rudy

What if the first moment COVID showed up in this country - and we saw it coming, remember?  We saw it arise and watched it travel - what if the federal government, in partnership with state agencies, had immediately isolated those infected, locked down the local area, and begun rigorous contact tracing.  What if the government had made sure that local health professionals were fully stocked with safety and testing equipment, and that local hospitals were fully prepared.  What if that had happened every time a new case arose.  What if there had been actual leadership?  How many people might still be alive?  How many businesses still thriving?

And speaking of contact tracing, Mr. Giuliani, I want to have a word with you.  I still remember an interview you did, with Fox of course, in which you made giggling fun of contact tracing as though it were a ludicrous idea.  What next? you asked.  Contact tracing for cancer?  Mr. Giuliani, you are a moron.  How do you not know that contact tracing is done to follow and inhibit the spread of infectious diseases?  Or do you think that cancer is infectious?  How do you not know that contact tracing has been used for a century and is partly responsible for the eradication of smallpox?  How do you not realize that the professionals who recommend contact tracing are miles smarter than you are?

You seem to take delight in mocking intelligence, even though every single significant contribution to the human race and to our lives today was imagined, created, refined, manufactured, and made available by people of intelligence.  Fabric, paper, the harnessing of electricity, canning food, internal combustion, radar, GPS, symphonies, movies, the list of astounding accomplishments goes on and on.  Do you think someone who spent his time mocking people could have created any of that?  It's as though you have brain envy, and can't stand anyone whose are bigger than yours.  You sad, little man.