It's China's fault, Obama's fault, Bolton's fault, the CDC's fault, the media's fault, the Dem's fault. I actually have no quarrel with faulting China for allowing the conditions under which the virus got started, then trying to keep it quiet, which caused the initial exponential spread inside Wuhan.
But speciously blaming Obama for setting up protocols that could have easily been changed, or claiming Bolton's dismissal of experts employed to handle this kind of viral outbreak was done without Don's knowledge (that is damning in and of itself even if it were true), or the media for stoking fear when many states and the federal government just declared a state of emergency.............it's pathetic.
Not only pathetic, but both transparent and typical of this prez and his cult followers.
The truth is, this admin has been two steps behind the curve since the world became aware of the outbreak in China months ago. There is no need to repeat the many ways in which it failed to prepare the nation for the inevitable. They are well understood. It was folly to think, as Trump obviously did, that travel restrictions were going to be enough to contain this in the US. Ironically, it was the admin's failure to properly handle US citizens returning from China that lead to the community transmission of the virus on the west coast.
HHS whistleblower: US workers received coronavirus evacuees without training or protection - CNNPolitics
Trump's culpability for our lack of preparation is exactly the reason time and effort are now being spent to lay the blame at the feet of others. It is manifestly evident by his own statements he did not take this matter seriously......and in many ways still doesn't. Yesterday's dog and pony show, while providing a measure of reassurance the government is finally mobilizing in a significant way, is further proof of the tardiness of the response. It's not leadership, it's being reactionary.
I am reminded of Richard Clarke's congressional testimony in the wake of 9/11. It was a moment of rare honesty and the assumption of responsibility for failure by a government official. He admitted to the public he personally let America down and so did our government. History has repeated itself.
Bwuhahahahahahahaha......
Blaming anyone for a pandemic, a unique never-before-seen virus, sweeping the face of the globe is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, the last gasps of partisan desperation.
Focusing on / looking for someone to blame is a manifestation of fear and hate. The reaction should be unified cooperation and collaboration to address the existing 'force of nature', not seeking personal / partisan boon from pointing fingers.
Never before has the media engaged in such 'end-of-days' fear-mongering over the spread of the FLU, attempting to manufacture the 2nd coming of the 'Black Plague', and - as they have shown for the last 4 years - partisans so willing to blame anything and everything on a President who they can not defeat in the up-coming election unless, perhaps, without help from the Lord Almighty himself....
Enter the Coronavirus.
THOUSANDS of Americans die EVERY year due to the Flu...but it is never reported or pushed by the media like it is being now. I am not making light of the 'creation of nature' (maybe wit ha little help in China) - it is a highly infectious disease, but the most vulnerable are the elderly and ones with certain pre-existing conditions.
The assault on populations has resulted in global supply chains being disrupted / slowed.....fear-mongering / fear world-wide has the stock market 'gamblers' spooked causing the free fall. The 'big players' investing in the market are like a larger herd of cattle....when night falls / when it gets dark they start getting spooked....and a crack of lighting or cooing pans rattled on the back of a chuck wagon can spook them enough into stampeding...and they can run for miles until they are finally stopped, rounded back up, and re-assured.
The doomsday predictions have also have people running to the stores, cleaning off the shelves - hoarding sanitizer, wipes, toiled paper, food....as if there is a shortage of any of it and they may never see it again. (This weekend the CEOs for Target, Wal Mart, and other chains joined the President in trying to restore calm by urging people not to hoard, to buy their normal weekly supplies so there will be enough for everyone, that they are keeping the stores open, the trucks running, and the shelves being stocked....but it is hard to keep the shelves stocked when people are unnecessarily buying large quantities and hoarding.
So 'you' want to blame someone for the global pandemic somehow breaching our 'invisible shield on invulnerability'....with its open / porous borders, millions of people traveling on flights in and out of the country, millions of visitors already here....?!
-- Do the math: 1 health care worker catches the Corona Virus at a conference out of the country and flies back into the US, showing no signs of the virus. To make the math easier (and you know the doc would interact with more on the trip)...if the doc just spread the virus to 2 people...and each one of those spread it to 2 people, and each one of them spread it to 2 people.....yeah, you get the picture.
Thinking the virus would NOT make it to the US - no matter what was done by whom to try to prevent it from happening, is stupid.
So 'you' want to blame someone for NOT BEING READY FOR AN UNEXPECTED, UNFORSEEN, 'ACT OF GOD' virus?
REALLY
A global viral '
hurricane'.....a global viral
'earthquake'...a global viral '
tsunami'....just hit...in an election year...and partisans are pointing fingers and telling us we need to blame someone .... and who to blame.
I have no time for people like that. to them I say, 'F* off'....
Instead of focusing on 'who is to blame', try focusing on what you can do to stay healthy, to avoid catching it , and / or to avoid spreading it:
Don't touch your face while out.
If the hoarders haven't taking it all, use hand sanitizers.
Wash your hands thoroughly, often. Wash them briskly for approx. 20 seconds.
When you get back home, wash your hands AND YOUR FACE.
Find alternate ways to say hello: Elbow bumps, nods - just say 'Hi'
Social Distance: Stay several feet away from others.
'ELMO' - cough into your elbow...cough/ sneeze into a tissue and dispose of the tissue
If you feel sick, don't go to work / school / go to large gatherings
If you feel sick don't visit elderly (parents / grand parents.....
So you can’t refute any of my FACTS. No surprise. Proving you a lying drunk is too easy.
