featureless wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:15 pm
It really is unbelievable, isn't it?
I knew Trump was going to be an unmitigated disaster the morning after the election. But this Covid thing... It's redefining unmitigated disaster.
At the end of his niece's book, she says, pretty much, all he had to do to be a HERO was not much:
Mary Trump wrote: It would have been easy for Donald to be a hero. People who have hated and criticized him would have forgiven or overlooked his endless stream of appalling action if he'd simply had somebody take the pandemic preparedness manual down from the shelf where it was put after the Obama administration gave it to him. If he'd alerted the appropriate agencies and state governments at the very first evidence the virus was highly contagious, had extremely high mortality rates, and was not being contained.
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If he'd ensured that there was a systematic, top-down approach and coordination among all the necessary agencies. <and here's her best part> Most of those tasks would have required almost no effort on his part. All he would have had to do was make a couple of phone calls, give a speech or two, then delegate everything else.
Yet the spoiled 3 year old in the 74 year old's body couldn't even do THAT! And it will get much, much worse. If the last 2 doubles, nationally, which each took six weeks, continues, by the end of the 1st week in September we'll have nearly 8.4 million people infected, and even if the mortality rate DROPS to 3%, we'll have another 100,000 dead. And if it doubles AGAIN in the following 6 weeks, we'll be looking at more cases in the USA than are currently in the world today, and half a million dead--more than we lost in WWI and WWII together. By the election? Possibly as many dead as died in the USA in the Spanish Flu epidemic. Hopefully, the election result will mirror the one 100 years ago--with the party that let it happen THROWN out of office in a landslide!
(Pity, because James Cox would have been an excellent President, and his VP would have been FDR)
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."