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By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. The country has adopted an array of wartime measures never employed collectively in U.S. history — banning incoming travelers from two continents, bringing commerce to a near-halt, enlisting industry to make emergency medical gear, and confining 230 million Americans to their homes in a desperate bid to survive an attack by an unseen adversary.
Despite these and other extreme steps, the United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation. It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
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This is the truth the Trump supports need to internalize. Trump failed in his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
--
This is the truth the Trump supports need to internalize. Trump failed in his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Cool, an opinion piece behind a paywall on a known liberal leaning/biased publication proclaiming Trump failed with a bunch of negative predictions on how the virus will play out in the US...
Based on the linked opinion piece I don't think Trump supporters need to internalize any kind of failure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
--
This is the truth the Trump supports need to internalize. Trump failed in his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Well there you go. Donald Trump isn't a very good leader. (and it is painful watching him drone on in these press conferences.)
But specifically what would you have (realistically) done differently as this all evolved? When exactly did the magic eight-ball predict the need to increase manufacturing of masks and ventilators? Numbers, numbers, numbers. They are so easy to project after the fact.
Have heard some posters on other forums claim they would have "declared a US national emergency" on January 21st!! How about you...??
We're ~#35 (10 or 15 are tiny countries) at 250/m. Sort by "Tot Cases / 1M Pop"
Coronavirus Update (Live): 532,150 Cases and 24,084 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer
How far up that list will we climb.
Also, we're ~#20 in "Tot Deaths / 1M Pop" at 4.
Well there you go. Donald Trump isn't a very good leader. (and it is painful watching him drone on in these press conferences.)
But specifically what would you have (realistically) done differently as this all evolved? When exactly did the magic eight-ball predict the need to increase manufacturing of masks and ventilators?
Have heard some posters on other forums claim they would have "declared a US national emergency" on January 21st!! How about you...??
The Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times in the Trump years. But with the pandemic, the president sees it as a “break the glass” last resort.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
--
This is the truth the Trump supports need to internalize. Trump failed in his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The entire world failed, by your logic. Did the entire world fail?
South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany did a great job.
I know Hannity and Limbaugh wouldn't dare show Trump's supporters this information, because if they actually took time to compare and contrast how efficiently those governments responded to this crisis, to the completely botched and idiotic and incompetent response fo the Trump administration, they'd be abandoned by their audiences. You see, Trump supporters WANT to be lied to. They WANT to be told Trump is awesome and everyone else is incompetent. It makes them feel better.
They have 0% infection rates? That's the only standard from the Trump admin that you would accept.
Turn off CBN. Turn off Fox News. Google what South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany have done and compare what those countries have done to the incompetent, idiotic, ham-fisted response of the Trump administration.
If we graph from Mar 26, 4 d/m, to Apr 3, 24 d/m, we'll see what the US graph for deaths/million really looks like. The graph posted above does not reflect that reality.
How are things in England, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Belgium? Did they fail, or are you going to make excuses for them?
I don't know about Switzerland, Netherlands, and Belgium. I haven't read or heard anything about those countries.
I do not agree that the UK's initial response was a good one, but the UK has shifted strategies.
Germany's initial response was slow as well, but their leaders recognized the problem and shifted strategies as well.
The Trump administration has not done very well, and they still continue to make mistakes. The best response in the U.S. to this pandemic, the best leadership, the best response has come from the great leadership of our various governors. They make Trump look like a High School Class President in comparison. Trump is completely out of his element, and it makes no sense to me why Trump supporters continue to pretend Trump is a competent and capable leader as he has routinely proven the opposite.
“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here..and isn't it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama."
-Trump campaign spokesperson
How old is the graph? It says so on the x-axis - two days old.The US went from 250/m to pushing 1000/m in under a week. Currently 900/m and climbing.
Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,162,727 Cases and 62,488 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer
Your graph shows the US progressing from near 0 to 10/m. How old is that graph? I suspect it's a prediction from long ago.
From Mar 26:
Currently 24 deaths / m pop.
Edit: I see, your graph is total deaths per million population.
We went from 4 to 24 since Mar 26.
"If a country has great leadership, Federal sick pay leave and universal healthcare, you're going to see rock bottom (or even zero) mortality rates like you see in Canada, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden."
-Cardinal
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