[ RANT ] Trump Versus SARS-CoViD-19.

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From the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump wanted his legacy to be either a strong economy or a big, beautiful wall on the southern border with Mexico.  But as financial markets decline and more CoViD-19 cases and associated deaths in the United States are confirmed, the outbreak threatens to eclipse whatever positive aspects of Trump’s presidency there may have been. How should a real President act to unite a worried country?

1) Trust. People have to believe their leaders in a crisis where there are all kinds of rumors and fears. Is the leader truthful, or does the leader make up 'truths' as he or she goes along?

2) The ability to find experts best qualified to attack the problem. Closely associated is the ability to recognize expertise in epidemiology, virology, and general medicine, and not just people who will follow the President's orders and repeat whatever the President tells them to say.

3) The ability to communicate in a way that brings the country together in a crisis. People tend to look for parental figures in their political leaders. This is really all about uniting people in a crisis moment -- this is not the time to be political, to blame others, or to put a positive spin on one's image. This is the time to motivate people to do whatever is necessary to defeat the Virus and restore people's ability to earn a livelihood, go to school, and associate freely.

Finally, consider this tweet from our Demander in Chief, posted on Twitter from his iPhone on 2020-03-09 at 07:47...

Mr. Trump also blames "the previous administration" for America's lack of preparedness against SARS-CoViD-19, when in reality, Mr. Trump has had the last THREE YEARS to prepare America for a disaster like this. Instead, he has spent millions to have his precious wall built along our southern border -- millions that could have been spent on upgrading America's medical infrastructure and assuring that every American citizen can afford medical care.

He has also made every effort to eliminate 'Obamacare' and return ordinary people to the 'mercy' of corporate-run medical and pharmaceutical institutions.

Please remember the level of callousness, cruelty, and indifference displayed by Mr. Trump toward people like you and me when you go to the polls this November.

Thank you.

I don't admire my current government (to say the least) but so far they act reasonably about the crisis.
How about your local governments? State, county, etc.?

Thanks Fnord. I'm really pissed off with the way President #45 and his administration are handling the outbreak.

I really think the way #45 is handling the situation is just for his own political benefit. I agree with you that he has spent ZERO time preparing the public for the outbreak. No wonder everyone is hoarding all of our precious toilet paper and hand sanitizer! Not to mention that #45 fired the entire CDC pandemic response team before this happened.

So much for having a president who is supposed to help his country...

I think election of Trump was a sign of some silent, deeply rooted crisis in the American society.
He's an idiot.

It was primarily because people in America sometimes have a reactionary view about things. And, sometimes, they don't think long and hard about the impact of their reactionary views.

Get rid of this!

Stamp out that!

But don't actually DO ANYTHING for anybody. Just keep out those immigrants and make America great again! LOL

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the (con-) man behind the curtain.

Trump is looking progressively more unfit -- intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically -- for office. For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it’s reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis -- and at that point, the president’s judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.

Mr. Trump seems to have no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them. No other president has ever expressed quite as much disdain for knowledge and indifference to facts, and he seems quite untroubled by his own apparent cluelessness. Mr. Trump's virulent combination of narcissism, ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness has done more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead from a national crisis to a global catastrophe.

It took until the second half of Mr. Trump's first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it's hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump. The president and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left the U.S. blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security. What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us ordinary citizens being aware of it and while Mr. Trump was doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but Mr. Trump frittered away that very opportunity with political grandstanding, spin-doctoring while the experts tried to raise the alarm high enough above Mr. Trump's ego to be seen and heard by those most threatened -- people like us.

• The World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused

• Researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials (doctors at the research project eventually decided to perform coronavirus tests without federal approval).

• The president ignored early warnings of the severity of the virus and grew angry at a CDC official who in February warned that an outbreak was inevitable.

• The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council's global-health office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics

(So much for making America great again... )

We are now paying the price for all that. Welcome to the New Reality -- commerce at a standstill, public venues closed, gatherings limited to 10 people or less, restaurants limited to delivery and take-out orders only, massive layoffs, an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression, and people confined to their homes "on suspicion" of carrying the SARS-CoViD-19 virus.

"New Reality"? "New World Order" seems more like it.

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"New World Order"

Hmmmmm....

“New World Disorder”

Fixed!

I don't feel this will be a "new world order." I feel like this will resolve, and that we'll get back to "normal."

We are economically-dependent on "normalcy."

This state of affairs is not viable.

Yeah ... maybe so ... but you got the main point of my ranting, did you not?

Trump went from "hoax" to "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic" in about a week. https://twitter.com/i/status/1239957608741519360

Tell me that again once the crisis is resolved, the economy has tanked, and we're all still under "quarantine".

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Yet he still takes no responsibility for his three years of neglect and assault on America's health-care system.

Yes, I agreed: if I were American I would be too angry to be able to form coherent sentences.
I’ve just written and deleted three entirely separate rants of my own.
Vain, self-pitying, pig-ignorant, lazy, ineffective, incompetent disgrace to his country.
That sums them up

And those are his good points!

His hires people who calls this pandemic "Kung Flu" to an Asian American reporter

Yeah... The Orange Goblin has displayed worse behaviours than that.