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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (156412)	3/19/2020 11:11:54 AM
From: Steve Lokness	1 Recommendation Recommended By CentralParkRanger Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358782

By being completely brain dead as the rest of America was reacting. Less than three weeks ago he said 15 cases - soon to be zero. You cannot be that out of touch with reality and have effective urgency! By not accepting the WHO test - but that is just a hint of the failures. He doesn't have a chance to look good when the stories start to come out - because he lives in his own reality that has nothing to do with the real world. Hoover will no longer be the one to compare to in the future when people think of .............."how stupid and ineffective can a bad government be"

To: i-node who wrote (156412)	3/19/2020 11:49:07 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 358782

LOL- I'll quote the Atlantic- though I doubt you'll like them any better than me: Leadership and Coordination Problems For months, President Trump has made light of the coronavirus, telling attendees at a Black History Month reception, for instance, that perhaps the virus could miraculously disappear. He claimed on Twitter that the U.S. has done a “ great job” handling the outbreak. Such a cavalier attitude seems unlikely to have motivated health officials to take things seriously. It also contradicted advice from most public-health experts. Even Scott Gottlieb, who recently resigned as Trump’s FDA commissioner, wrote in The Wall Street Journal on February 4 that “it’s time to start testing more people.” Containing a new infectious disease requires a lot of close collaboration between the president, the CDC, the FDA, and other parts of the Department of Health and Human Services, several Obama-era health officials told me. “One reason we were able to move quickly [during the Ebola outbreak] was that there was a great deal of coordination and issue spotting and troubleshooting that went on,” Hamburg, the former FDA commissioner, told me.