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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:16 AM Nov 2020

Trump Is Completely Ignoring the Pandemic

Trump Is Completely Ignoring the Pandemic

November 14, 2020 at 10:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/14/trump-is-completely-ignoring-the-pandemic/

"SNIP.....

President Trump has not attended a coronavirus task force meeting in “at least five months,” the Washington Post reports.

“The president is no longer regularly briefed on the pandemic by his team of doctors, and he rarely reads the daily virus reports prepared by Birx… The reports have grown increasingly grim in recent weeks, aides said, but are largely ignored in the West Wing.”

....SNIP"

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liberalla

(9,238 posts)
15. If he had taken it seriously (try not to laugh) and been successful at containing
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 02:06 AM
Nov 2020

the virus, he may have beat Biden/Harris. I think of Jacinda Ardern of NZ, who crushed the virus and won re-election in an astounding landslide.

Back to drump:
I can't believe it was as close as it was, and if his poor handling of the covid crisis hadn't been available as a tool to pound him with... he may have won...

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
7. The pandemic? He's ignoring his entire job.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:25 AM
Nov 2020

He is binge watching the news, calling and yelling at people and chewing the covers.

Blue Owl

(50,349 posts)
8. This is what makes him a terrible public leader
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:26 AM
Nov 2020

You can't 'pick and choose' your crises when you're running a country, and make them all go away by firing people...

crickets

(25,962 posts)
11. This is not about ineptitude, it's deliberate abrogation of responsibility.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:48 AM
Nov 2020

People are dying by the thousands. The country can't go through two more months of this. trump needs to be removed and charged.

NJCher

(35,658 posts)
12. here's a plan to lower Covid dramatically
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 01:17 AM
Nov 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/09/covid-tests-cheap-home-tests-stop-pandemic-harvard-doc-says/3325446001/

I heard the doctor who knows about it on the radio and I looked it up. This was proposed way back in August. Here's a snip from the article:

In recent weeks, Mina, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been lobbying heavily for fast, cheap, at-home tests, hoping to get the federal government to fund their development and remove barriers to their approval. He’s spoken with senators, foreign leaders, and company executives, who share this idea, but is increasingly frustrated by the administration’s inaction.

If this Harvard doctor is right and we could have lowered Covid by 90-95%, we would not be in the situation we are in right now and it's all because of poor leadership.
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