I have read only a part of this thread but I am surprised by the lack of deeper questioning of the deeply rooted mindsets of the Trump industry and, more broadly speaking, the right winged Republicans/religious groups.
But what has happened in the last month with the corona is just an accelerated version of what’s going to happen on broader subjects such as climate change or the removal of democratic control in the US.
The core issue is a refusal of facts and truth in favor of a romanticized version based on wishful thinking, lack of empathy and selfishness.
Trump and his supporters ignored all the scientific data brought to them and was attempting to align facts with his wicked theoretical views of the world. The reality came back to bite him big time confirming that science was right, that the focus on economy kills, that those actually suffering are the poor elderly people... yes the core Trump electorate.
And guess what, the exact same thing is going to happen for climate change and the slow but clear undemocratization of the US.
As a final comment, watching Fox news litterally kills these days. Stop watching it for your own good. It’s time to head back towards reality and away from dreamland.
Cheers,
Bernard
LOL Bernard, singing the same old song. It's all Trump's fault. Do you ever get any new material?
Fact is, everyone was caught by surprise by this, every single person with the exception of (in my country) Tom Cotton and the governor of CT. Tom Cotton, a republican, actually held a Senate meeting on the virus and its potential effect in the beginning of January and only republicans showed up, albeit not all of them. All the dems accused him of trying to divert attention away from impeachment.
But even outside the USA, there is not one country in the West that foresaw this prior to Italy making it blatantly obvious.
So there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides.
And if this scientific data was really all over the place back in February, please send me the articles. Vox (left wing new site), the NYTs, Washington Post and every other news media all down played this up until March. No one was calling for any serious actions anywhere; De Blasio was telling New Yorkers to continue living their lives as normal.
The real reason for this screw up is China.
All western models that were developed on this virus were based on the data coming out of China, which was purposely inaccurate. Dr. Deborah Birx even commented on this during a recent press briefing. It was this deceiving data, from both China and WHO (of which the Japanese PM just said WHO should be renamed the Chinese Health Organization) that lead many to have false models and not take it seriously enough. I believe Birx said the data made it look more like SARs, which did not have a high transmission rate and why it was not originally taken seriously.
I might add that both Birx and Fauci are not politicians and can not be fired by Trump, so they have no reason to fluff up the story for Trump.