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by screen glare » Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:42 am
See? States are now forced into making reopening U-turns. Our economy can’t reopen without first corralling the virus. That means doing all things, at once, and steadily over several months, to “bend the curve”.
Which means radically reducing transmission of the microbe from person to person. Which is only possible with a highly organized, science-driven, bold, FEDERAL public health plan lead by a competent, caring, science-first US president.
Trump said each state would do its own thing and the federal government would be a “back up”. So each governor took the lead. And we ended up with 50 variously effective responses.
At Trump’s “Pence-in-charge” Coronavirus task force daily televised briefings - Trump would display his incompetence and Pence, Fauci, Birx, Redfield, Azar, etc. would speak very carefully as Trump loomed inches away - in what appeared to be a menacing manner. As he was seen doing when debating HRC during the presidential debates/town halls.
After he got bored he stopped those daily coronavirus communications. He then went on to other matters such as moving his RNC nominating convention, and predicting overflow attendance at two Trump public rallies featuring unmasked mad MAGA men, women, teens, children. Apparently Herman Caine sat through the first dangerous one in Tulsa.
Bottom line: until the virus is mitigated all at once nationally with a caring president taking the lead at the federal level - there will be false start reopenings. As we’re experiencing now.
The virus has the final say. It won’t stop infecting until we stop its transmission. Meaning face coverings, social distancing, testing, TRACING, washing hands, locking down.
BTW - while Trump’s been flapping his racist jaws on Twitter, mostly sitting on his flubber fat ass, and golfing occasionally - time has been wasted that could have been used to fashion an effective national Coronavirus response to mitigate transmission, infection, hospitalizations, and deaths. Instead - he’s self-snarled again in a Putin’s puppet/Russia revelation that’s got Traitor Trump written in red all over it.
