Sandy Shanks
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This is a statement I made a few days ago.
"There will be death," Trump said recently. Americans know what is happening. Did we really need to hear that from our President? He goes from fantasies about how all this will end soon to voicing comments from the grim reaper.
It is past time to end the coronavirus press conferences. Devolving into campaign-like, self-congratulatory comments, and oft repeated statements from medical experts, it is time to end them. We all know what the federal government has to do. Get medical equipment out to where it is needed most while working on cures and vaccines. Trump's government should do that instead of talking about it.
But that isn't Trump. Trump is a great believer in the idea that rhetoric solves all problems. He wants Americans to think the government is doing a "tremendous" job and everybody is "doing great" because he said so.
Trump is totally incompetent. So, it stands to reason he would appoint incompetent advisors. He has fired many of them during his Presidency, and great many of them quit, unable to work for an inept President. Trump replaced them with equally incompetent people, or worse. He has many "acting" advisors because qualified people are not interested and the unqualified can't pass Senate muster even though the Senate is controlled by Trump's party.
One example is Trump's acting navy secretary, Thomas B. Modly, who relieved the commander of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, for writing to his superiors, acquainting them with the conditions aboard the Roosevelt. At most, Crozier deserved a slap on the wrist for using unsecure channels. But Modly fired him, turning a routine reprimand into major scandal for Trump. Modly then made matters worse by telling the crew of the Roosevelt that their captain was "too naive, or too stupid, to be the commanding officer of a ship like this."
Honestly, one has to work at being that stupid. One wonders how long it will be before Trump fires Modly. That is another reason Trump likes "acting" before the title. He can get rid of them easily.
Most Americans are very tired of the melodrama we keep hearing from Trump and Trump's Covid-19 team of "experts." Some "experts," Trump does most of the talking, but one of his "experts" managed to get in a word, even if it was ludicrous hyperbole. The US surgeon general, Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, spoke to Fox News on Sunday. He described the upcoming grim period of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States as a "Pearl Harbor moment" and a "9/11 moment." That is pure Hollywood, and Americans are sick of it. It was a mindless comment.
Peter Navarro is Trump's trade and manufacturing aide. He is an economic advisor, not a medical expert. So, it stands to reason Trump's appointee on the economy would publicly push back against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci's assertion that it's unclear whether an anti-malaria drug can be used to combat the coronavirus.
Naturally, Trump thinks the medical advice from his economic advisor is more accurate than the medical advice from his medical experts, and he supports that conclusion with a lie. Trump told Americans on Sunday that he strongly backs hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID-19, despite scant scientific evidence that it’s an effective treatment. “What do I know? I’m not a doctor,” Trump said. “But I have common sense. The FDA feels good about it, as you know, they approved it.”
The FDA has not approved hydroxychloroquine, a popular malaria and lupus treatment, to treat COVID-19. Medical experts warn that reports of the drug’s benefits for COVID-19 patients are anecdotal and small-scale, and there is little scientific evidence yet that it works against the coronavirus.
But Trump prefers to listen to his economic advisor. "What do you have to lose?"
Your life. Oops, I guess Trump didn't know that. This is the guy running the Covid-19 press conferences? Good Lord!
"There will be death," Trump said recently. Americans know what is happening. Did we really need to hear that from our President? He goes from fantasies about how all this will end soon to voicing comments from the grim reaper.
It is past time to end the coronavirus press conferences. Devolving into campaign-like, self-congratulatory comments, and oft repeated statements from medical experts, it is time to end them. We all know what the federal government has to do. Get medical equipment out to where it is needed most while working on cures and vaccines. Trump's government should do that instead of talking about it.
But that isn't Trump. Trump is a great believer in the idea that rhetoric solves all problems. He wants Americans to think the government is doing a "tremendous" job and everybody is "doing great" because he said so.
Trump is totally incompetent. So, it stands to reason he would appoint incompetent advisors. He has fired many of them during his Presidency, and great many of them quit, unable to work for an inept President. Trump replaced them with equally incompetent people, or worse. He has many "acting" advisors because qualified people are not interested and the unqualified can't pass Senate muster even though the Senate is controlled by Trump's party.
One example is Trump's acting navy secretary, Thomas B. Modly, who relieved the commander of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, for writing to his superiors, acquainting them with the conditions aboard the Roosevelt. At most, Crozier deserved a slap on the wrist for using unsecure channels. But Modly fired him, turning a routine reprimand into major scandal for Trump. Modly then made matters worse by telling the crew of the Roosevelt that their captain was "too naive, or too stupid, to be the commanding officer of a ship like this."
Honestly, one has to work at being that stupid. One wonders how long it will be before Trump fires Modly. That is another reason Trump likes "acting" before the title. He can get rid of them easily.
Most Americans are very tired of the melodrama we keep hearing from Trump and Trump's Covid-19 team of "experts." Some "experts," Trump does most of the talking, but one of his "experts" managed to get in a word, even if it was ludicrous hyperbole. The US surgeon general, Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, spoke to Fox News on Sunday. He described the upcoming grim period of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States as a "Pearl Harbor moment" and a "9/11 moment." That is pure Hollywood, and Americans are sick of it. It was a mindless comment.
Peter Navarro is Trump's trade and manufacturing aide. He is an economic advisor, not a medical expert. So, it stands to reason Trump's appointee on the economy would publicly push back against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci's assertion that it's unclear whether an anti-malaria drug can be used to combat the coronavirus.
Naturally, Trump thinks the medical advice from his economic advisor is more accurate than the medical advice from his medical experts, and he supports that conclusion with a lie. Trump told Americans on Sunday that he strongly backs hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID-19, despite scant scientific evidence that it’s an effective treatment. “What do I know? I’m not a doctor,” Trump said. “But I have common sense. The FDA feels good about it, as you know, they approved it.”
The FDA has not approved hydroxychloroquine, a popular malaria and lupus treatment, to treat COVID-19. Medical experts warn that reports of the drug’s benefits for COVID-19 patients are anecdotal and small-scale, and there is little scientific evidence yet that it works against the coronavirus.
But Trump prefers to listen to his economic advisor. "What do you have to lose?"
Your life. Oops, I guess Trump didn't know that. This is the guy running the Covid-19 press conferences? Good Lord!
