When will we understand Donald is all about Trump
Is it the Coronarump or Donovid-19. Oh wait a minute this is unique so Donvid-1. If he is not lying his sense of humor is misguided at best. His humor is offensive. Slow down testing in the midst of a pandemic. Wow! Can anything be more wrong?
When we need a President who leads by example, our Trumpmania decides it is best to not wear a mask and encourages others to follow his example. When one person decides to not wear a mask, that person has made a decision that the lives of those around are not important. Not wearing a mask is a selfish act. Wearing a mask is one of putting group above yourself.
But the Donald doesn’t understand that. He understands that because he is president he can have anyone who comes near him can be tested. He is tested on a regular basis. Our president can prevent himself from getting ill by being vigilant about those around him. To hell to anyone who follows his lead.
South Korea
Let’s talk about South Korea as an example. While the news of a new respiratory disease was still in China, South Korea initiated their pandemic plan. The first act was to create and build a test. Then they followed their plan and produced the test.
When the first case was confirmed, they began contact tracing and quarantine procedures and testing, testing, testing. They got concerned with case 1. Because of this they have been able to keep COVID-19 at bay. Have there been cases. Yes, but they have limited the spread.
So what did our President do…
He states everything was done strongly and perfectly. It boggles the mind how anyone can think we handled this pandemic well.
The Donald’s response was to deny the disease caused a threat. In January, he called it the new Democratic Hoax. He stated we have it well under control. Little or no action was taken on testing. We waited. This continued through all of February, we waited. Only in March did our president decide that it was time to take action. His first act was to place Mike Pence, who is a science denyer, in charge of a quickly developing medical emergency.
The Donald believes, we developed and produced the best testing in the world. That best test is 50% accurate. He has started the process of leaving the WHO. How will that make us safer in the future? How will leaving the organization responsible for analyzing new disease and predicting the threat make us better prepared in the future? This is not a US country problem, but an US global problem.
And now the Coronavirus Taskforce Briefing is held…
The Donald is not present. For me that is a positive, because when he attends he just lies and betrays our trust. Mike Pence quite nicely took his place and provided the lies. Yes, we need to be positive. But we need leadership speaking of reality. There is no way to speak of the current situation as anything but that the virus is out in our community and spreading rapidly.
What steps can we take to help?
Wearing a mask…
While the Donald and Mike are able to have the individuals with whom they meet tested, that just is not case for the rest of us. The task force guidelines strongly encourage the wearing of a mask. One infected person not wearing a masks puts us all at risk.
That is everyone including the Donald and Mike. Our leaders need to lead by example. The Donald and Mike are failing us.
Follow the plan…
The coronavirus task created a plan which provided a gating criteria, with phased steps to reopen our economy. This plan called for a gradual removal of social distancing tools. It called for the wearing of face masks when social distancing was difficult.
Both the gating criteria and social distancing has been largely ignored, since the Donald declared we are reopening.
Why go through the effort of creating a plan, and then ignore the plan. My experience tells me that if I follow a plan I can adjust the plan in the future. If I don’t follow the plan, when it comes to review the past so I can improve the future it makes that process much less effective.
The only conclusion is that not following the plan is a formula for disaster. It also makes planning for future similar events that much more difficult.
So what is next…
My belief is that we must start by slowing the reopening, not reversing it necessarily, but slowing the process. Begin looking at the measurements as being accurate and not making excuses. Act like adults.
Next we must take an accurate accounting of those in office. The Donald and Mike have failed us. They and the governors who did not follow the plan failed us and must be made to be accountable in the next election.
While this is not a political situation, it is a responsibility situation. We can not continue to support and elect officials we point fingers and tell us lies. The elective officials who did not act in our best interests, who did not follow the plan, must not be re-elected.
November is the key, to making the United States again the leader of the Free World.
and to again make us the envy of the world.
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