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“We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this,” Kushner said. “We’ve achieved all the different milestones that are needed. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.”
You get the point.
Take Kushner’s previous foray into sounding off about the coronavirus earlier this month. (Kushner has been given some amorphous but hugely powerful role by Trump on the coronavirus task force.) Asked why medical supplies from the federal stockpile weren’t being distributed to states that needed them, Kushner responded: “The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be state’s stockpiles that they then use.”
First off, “our stockpile?” No way, dude.
“The Strategic National Stockpile is the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out. When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency.”
Only someone who has spent a life looking at the average person with a sort of scientific or philosophical remove could go on TV with 60,000 Americans dead and demand that this “great success story” be acknowledged. Because while Kushner’s point was — and is — clearly that things could have been much, much worse, the willingness to ignore the real-world effects of coronavirus only comes with an out-of-touchness that has been nurtured over a lifetime.
Being born into privilege isn’t Kushner’s fault! But his seeming blindness to what that privilege has given him — and allowed him to avoid — is. He’d be far better off (and so would we) if he would simply stay behind the scenes — and away from the TV cameras — as the country continues its fight against coronavirus.
