Why are you continually bringing in politics into this issue. It's not a political issue...it's a world wide problem.
If the virus fizzles out and everything turns out OK, will you give Trump credit just as you now condemn him?
I will give him credit for being prescient, when all the scientists were saying otherwise; indeed I will.I won't give him credit for quieting the panic, which seems to have begun. Runs on food and toilet paper are now underway.
That's exactly what the USA started out at doing...NOTHING>><>>
When you attack the government and administration, that's political. You offer nothing to help but criticism. Why don't you give Trump a chance? You know, he didn't start the virus.In 1986, Central Park's ice skating rink in NYC was shut down after 6 years of the government trying to fix it. They spent $14 million. Donald Trump, a private citizen stepped in and offered to fix it for $3 million in 6 months. His offer was taken up and he completed the job in 4 months and under budget. When asked why NYC government couldn't fix it, he quipped in typical Trump fashion, "they’re very nice people and I like them very much but they're all idiots!' "https://www.forbes.com/sites/offwhitepapers/2015/08/24/donald-trump-and-the-wollman-rinking-of-american-politics/#1e1026f12fc8
That’s just an empty slogan.Nothing you can do can fully prepare you for a black swan event.
I've made no secret of my disdain for Trump. I think he is the scion and now leader of an organized crime family, that he suffers from at least one serious mental illness that endangers all of us (narcissistic personality disorder) that he is a buffoon, he cheats at golf, and has bad taste. But I don't think he's totally to blame for the mishandling of the Covid-19 epidemic. No President can really run the US government, although Trump has clearly proven that one really bad President can damage it. Trump has obviously been poorly supported by the medical establishment. Epidemiologists should have been screaming to the media instead of mumbling about it in papers and conferences, ever since it first began to spread in China. I'm an avid consumer of the media (an ex-reporter) and I really didn't hear much from those guys until a month or so ago. The head of Health and Human Services, who knew how bad this was going to get back in early January, first delegated his chief of staff to inform somebody on the National Security Council about it -- in other words, dump it into the bureaucracy where it takes weeks for anything to trickle out. He then waited even longer before he even talked to Trump directly (all part of a WAPO story.) The guy should have been screaming in Trump's ear the next day, after he learned about the China problem, and other advisors should have pushed Trump hard to get out in front of it. Instead, they appeared to think they only had a political problem, and let the real problem, the disease itself, boil up from underneath. If Trump in mid-Janary had gone out front and said, "We may have a problem not of our devising, but a problem nevertheless, and we have to do everything we can to protect ourselves, and I'm appointing the VP to manage the problem day by day," then everybody now would think he was actually doing a great job. Instead, he got a lot of bad advice and has spent the last two months stepping on his own dick, and it's almost like he's being blamed for the disease, rather than just being blamed for being his usual self (an inept bumbling fool.) What he and his advisors have blown here is the possibility that he might look like a true leader in a crisis that everybody could understand that he couldn't prevent. But he's *still* insisting that it's not going to be that bad, and he's exacerbating the inept bumbling fool judgment. To say it in a few words: he has been badly served by his underlings. Some of us thought that might happen in a true crisis, and now it has.
An amazing story! Who was the "idiot" mayor at the time?
Public health means preparedness. The fact that a lot of the time nothing really bad happens is not evidence what we should do nothing.
Situation out of control, this morning DJ dropped at one point over 2,000 points, NYSE triggered circuit breaker. Stocks still down, infections still up. A task force aimed at stopping collusion in government procurement is on "high alert".
In other news, I heard that Trump floated the idea of quarantining the passengers from the Grand Princess cruise ship at some of his resorts where occupancy is down.
When you attack the government and administration, that's political.
The first photographic casualty:
No, it's not. It's keeping an eye on your employees.Stop looking at everything through the "Trump" lens. He's just the guy who happens to be in the top job at the moment.
