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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1219617)	4/12/2020 10:09:57 AM
From: Wharf Rat	3 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 SeachRE Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579723

This Is Trump’s Fault The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures. theatlantic.com I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.Trump now fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans than the 9/11 attacks. By the first weekend in April, the virus had killed more Americans than any single battle of the Civil War. By Easter, it may have killed more Americans than the Korean War. On the present trajectory, it will kill, by late April, more Americans than Vietnam. Having earlier promised that casualties could be held near zero, Trump now claims he will have done a “very good job” if the toll is held below 200,000 dead. The United States is on trajectory to suffer more sickness, more dying, and more economic harm from this virus than any other comparably developed country. 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. The lying about the coronavirus by hosts on Fox News and conservative talk radio is Trump’s fault: They did it to protect him. The false hope of instant cures and nonexistent vaccines is Trump’s fault, because he told those lies to cover up his failure to act in time. The severity of the economic crisis is Trump’s fault; things would have been less bad if he had acted faster instead of sending out his chief economic adviser and his son Eric to assure Americans that the first stock-market dips were buying opportunities. The firing of a Navy captain for speaking truthfully about the virus’s threat to his crew? Trump’s fault. The fact that so many key government jobs were either empty or filled by mediocrities? Trump’s fault. The insertion of Trump’s arrogant and incompetent son-in-law as commander in chief of the national medical supply chain? Trump’s fault. For three years, Trump has blathered and bluffed and bullied his way through an office for which he is utterly inadequate. But sooner or later, every president must face a supreme test, a test that cannot be evaded by blather and bluff and bullying. That test has overwhelmed Trump. Trump failed. He is failing. He will continue to fail. And Americans are paying for his failures. </snip> Read the rest here: theatlantic.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1219617)	4/12/2020 2:09:05 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579723

Wrong. The original projects INCLUDED social distancing as an assumption. The projections specifically said that. As I've said, everyone is covering their asses now, because they killed our economy based on mass hysteria and now the evidence is proving that to be the case. So they are going to tell you it was necessary. Giving up our freedoms, our rights, and our common sense is almost never necessary, especially when it is the government telling that it is. The government will never make us safe. Life is risk. The sooner that Americans grow up and realize this, the sooner we can reassert our fundamental freedoms and kick the politicians in the ass for trying to destroy us and our country. Think about it. All of the Western Free World saw what China did to their own population and then we all decided that was a good idea? I mean WTF. Why would we think anything coming out of Communist Dictatorship China to be a good idea? We've lost our minds to mass hysteria.