They believe if you wanna handle the virus right, you have to look to countries that did... like China
It is a truly STUPID man, that allows his enemies to direct his actions. And a gullible fool as well.
For Trump to have done the RIGHT THING, he would have to admit that all he believes is crap, especially the America First crap. He is hamstrung by his dogma, as are all the right wingers. To see them now explain why giving folks money FREE, is OK and not an axiom, is special.
Who's dodging? One month ago people were expecting that we would be aggressively addressing this and we would quickly come out of it without millions of people being put out of work, like South Korea did. One month ago people did not expect us to be in a worse state than Italy, Spain, or Iran... leading the world in the number of infections and deaths. One month ago we expected to have a single, strong and coherent message from a competent leader empathizing with us and giving us solace... we have received the exact opposite from Trump. One month ago people hoped that Trump would finally rise to the moment, and were disappointed.
Naw, this is the whole enchilada. It can't be run from. He'll do along the same lines of what Obama did, fix it with a massive stimulus....with Congress's help of course.
What a pile of crap. You are comparing South Korea, a population of 51 million to the US with 330 plus million. I have traveled all over South Korea....there is zero comparison to the US. The hot spots in the US have been dealt with by governors more because it is their States. Trump has been there for the governors so if anyone has dropped the ball it is them. Again, you leave out specifics on what could have been done differently. That is by design for sure.
Not a single one of them, absent the benefit of hindsight, can say what Trump should have done other than what he did.
"I closed CHINA three weeks ago! Me! I did that. And it was a great move!" "And what actions have you done sin----" "Did you not hear me?! I did that. Me. We needed to do that! I did it" " Right, but what about FEMA's preparedn--" "China. Closed it!"
Ya... because of the wrecked economy. More poor people equals more Democrat power. Democrats are the party of the poor. They keep people poor, make more people poor, and import poor people.
Then your Wife got in under the wire. What was she thinking putting our nation at risk. Nevertherless, she was put on notice at the airport. About a week later, the third week of January, Trump issued a 14 day quarantine for travelers returning from China. The left condemned him. A week later, on Jan31 Trump issued a China travel ban. The left again condemned him. In point, Trump was on this from the get go, while the left had their heads up their own collective anti Trump rump. Trump was out of the gate and halfway around the track before the left, still in barn, realized it.
Yes... South Korea.... They've used testing aggressively to identify cases — not only testing people who are so sick that they're hospitalized but also mild cases and even suspected cases. They've quarantined tens of thousands of people who may have been exposed to confirmed cases. The vast majority of the people ordered to quarantine at home are perfectly healthy and never do get sick, but the few who do develop symptoms can be quickly isolated further https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...the-outbreak-without-shutting-everything-down Testing was followed by extensive tracking and tracing. Once a case was confirmed, the authorities tracked down the movement histories of the patient and traced the people they had contacted. The authorities worked with local governments to survey security camera footage, smartphone data, and credit card records to chart — down to the minute — the patients’ previous travels and contacts. The government also mandated and encouraged innovative ways of sharing this information. It used a GPS-tracking app to oversee and publicize patients’ movements in real time and penalize those that broke quarantine. Further, it invited companies to develop apps that visualized the patients’ anonymized location data and made them more accessible to the public. One such app — called the “Corona 100m” — alerted users when they came within 100 meters of the recent whereabouts of a coronavirus patient. https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/a-democratic-response-to-coronavirus-lessons-from-south-korea/ If Trump had even suggested doing any of this, the Democrats, their willing accomplices in the media, and their useful message-board idiots would have screamed bloody murder about using the pandemic as an excuse to create a police state.
Fauci was recommending a national lockdown to the Trump admin back in early March, clearly Donnie wasn’t receptive to that idea. Just remember, every briefing they have where they talk about striving for “minimal deaths” by doing “full mitigation”, they aren’t being serious; because “full mitigation” would mean doing EVERYTHING they can, and they simply aren’t. https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/fauci-open-to-a-14-day-national-shutdown-to-stem-covid-19/
The federal government does not have the power to order people to stay home and businesses to close - and most certainly cannot enforce such a thing. State governments do - and that's to Fauci was talking to. Your expectations have no basis in reality. Never mind the fact you'd be among those screaming the loudest if the federal government went into "full mitigation" mode..
Well, we know the current one doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, so we can only do better with anyone who doesn’t put his ego before his duty and tries to make everything about himself. We need a devoted public servant, not a strutting popinjay.