The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures.
"That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault again. The refusal of red-state governors to act promptly, the failure to close Florida and Gulf Coast beaches until late March? That fault is more widely shared, but again, responsibility rests with Trump: He could have stopped it, and he did not."
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
From an fb friend, G.G.:
ReplyDelete"Mass burials in NYC? Yep, on Hart Island if nobody claims you, because the city has more victims than any one country. I remember that Arlington National Cemetery is on property confiscated from Robert E Lee's family and perhaps all the victims of Trump's "It's all a Democratic hoax" official policy should be buried at Mar a Lago or one of his golf courses. It's part of American tradition after all."
More from G.G.
ReplyDelete"Consensus is building amongst epidemiologists that Covid-19 first entered our country from Europe. But I of course admire T for stopping arrivals from China a while after it was already here. That actually seems to be the story from his admirers who list that as a demonstration of how well he has things in hand. Can we quarantine these people?"
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Donald Trump’s presidency, by every possible measure, is an abject failure.