Trickster Synchro?

On August 6, Trump headed to Cleveland, Ohio to give a speech, tour a manufacturing facility, and to hold a fundraiser. The state’s governor, Republican Mike DeWine, met him at the tarmac. But since everyone who comes into close proximity to trump must be tested for the virus, DeWine got the test. There on the tarmac. The result didn’t take several days or a couple of weeks. It came within minutes and DeWind tested positive, so no greeting of trump.

From Politico: DeWine, whose response to the pandemic had been widely praised, was asymptomatic but would return to Columbus, Ohio, where he would be tested again, and then quarantine at his home in Cedarville, Ohio, for the next two weeks. The announcement of the second, negative test came several hours later.

DeWine has earned plaudits as one of a handful of Republican governors to have instituted aggressive coronavirus restrictions, and he has pressed the Trump administration to ramp up testing and for more personal protective equipment.

This situation feels like a trickster synchro to me. He tests positive so he can’t greet trump or accompany him for photo ops. Maybe he can hear the cackle of the trickster in his head. Ha-ha, too bad, You blew it. Now you can go home and fret about whether you’re going to need an ICU bed and die. 

But a few hours later, another test reveals that he’s negative. The synchro seems twofold – that some of these tests are unreliable in that they’re false positives, like DeWine’s, or false negatives. Either diagnosis prompts you to act in a particular way, to make certain choices, which subsequently turn out to be wrong with the next test result.

Just within the last several days, DeWine issued a face mask requirement for children returning to school in the fall. And after he initially failed to issue a statewide mask mandate, like other governors and trump himself, DeWine recently reversed course and joined more than half of U.S. states in announcing a mask requirement.

Earlier this week Ohio became one of a half-dozen states to team up to jointly purchase 3 million rapid antigen tests in an effort to expand and speed up testing.

According to Politico, he “repeatedly declined to criticize the Trump administration’s response to the crisis and its inability to provide the testing capacity that health experts say is necessary for tracking the spread of coronavirus and scuttle major outbreaks before they get out of hand.

Why? The synchro seemed to be telling him that the trump route was the wrong path.  But perhaps he, like Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis, drank that trump Kool-Aid long ago and is unable to move beyond it.

Trickster synchros always hold up your foibles in some way and poke fun at you, like a bully. The nature and face of the bully depends on your gender, age, circumstances,worldview, and whatever it is you need to learn. Perhaps with these Republican governors – Florida, Ohio, Texas immediately come to mind, the lesson is Think for yourself.