Thank you for the great, thoughtful response, dude.
I am neither, Jim. I think he needs to step back and let those who know about this sort of shit do the talking. The President means well, but with just about every opportunity he gives information contradictory to that of the doctors. That is not helpful. Trying to rush through this is going to help any of us. Back online by Easter? Only if we want to start building more morgues. I don't think he wants to hurt the country, but I do think he is so focused on getting re-elected that he's starting to panic. The strongest pillars of his re-election argument is the economy and historically low unemployment across the board. He knows that the longer this thing goes on the more it hurts him and his chances.
The President gets attacked for not leading and for doing too much at the same time. For him to lead he has to herd the experts of various narrowly defined fields, take their accumulated advice and come up with responses he thinks most reasonable and a trade off between health disaster and economic disaster which is also almost always also a health disaster as suicides go way up too. That is good leadership, IMO.
The 'back on line by Easter' is more of a goal than a hard date, but making it a state by state decision is giving the nation more flexibility.
Imo, the only thing he has done I would do different is to focus the social distancing/isolation on the most vulnerable groups, get help to them through courier services, and let the rest of us go about our daily business. But use federal responses to help the states to manage their COVID19 response more than try to determine everything from Washington.
On the up side, it looks like Joe Biden will be his competition. That guy's just creepy.
Lol, the up side? Almost do you convince me that you are a Republican.
