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As tragic toll from virus rises, so do questions about Trump's leadership
President Donald Trump's White House appears powerless to halt an increasingly tragic trajectory in the coronavirus pandemic as the death toll climbed by nearly 1,000 on a single, dark day.
www.cnn.com
I quote from the CNN article where Trump is speaking:
"This is so contagious. Nobody's ever seen anything like this, where large groups of people all of a sudden, just by being in the presence of somebody have it."
Trump works so hard at making himself look like a victim also.
Well, we know he is not a student of history and that he spends very little, if any, time reading. If he did he would know about the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans and 21-100 million worldwide. So far, compared to 1918, the coronavirus pandemic is just a pin prick, but Trump doesn't know that. Not only that, but the 1918 flu started in the United States, most likely in Haskell County Kansas and was carried to Europe by American troops. And, the world population was only one third of what it is today.
My 1918 information is from John Barry's book "The Great Influenza," published by Penguin in 2004.