8/11/2020

My dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

            So, it looks like you are getting back into having daily press conferences. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes. It’s too bad that yesterday’s got interrupted by that nearby shooting. That must have been creepy. It’s good that you weren’t hurt.

            Today I am thinking about our immune system after reading an in-depth article in the NYT about “how CV sends some of our bodies to war with themselves.” It turns out that some of us produce a “cytokine storm” which floods our blood with interferons & our organs have trouble functioning. The doctors & researchers are trying to figure out when to give which drugs to “calm the immune system.” It’s quite the paradox because we need active macrophages & lymphocytes to combat CV, but we don’t want them doing collateral damage. The key may be to foster an “innate tolerance mechanism” so our immune system doesn’t over-react. This can be achieved by “precision medicine.” Luckily, we have so many smart physicians in the USA, they are getting this figured out, which is leading to our improving case-fatality rate which you have been so proud of. They could use some more funding to do more research. Please help them with that.

            I worry that you might be at war with yourself. You end up harming yourself when you over-react to things. I suspect that your attempt to bypass the Congress with the unemployment checks is one example of this & the shenanigans at the USPS is another. Your voters out in the rural areas need help now & depriving them of the mail will not make them happy. You need someone to help you develop your “innate tolerance mechanism” so you can start practicing “precision governing.”

            What do you think of VVP’s Sputnik 5 vaccine? I sure do hope it works, but I have my doubts. As I’ve told you many times, you have to respect the intelligence of the Russian folk, but you also have to keep an eye on them. They are very crafty!

            HYITL,