Day 51: 2020 Pandemic. We’ve Blown It and Tens of Thousands Will Die Because of Poor Leadership

1 May 2020 (imported to correct account)

Facts: On the day that TN/LA/TX and GA report the most cases and most deaths in the previous 24 hours, those states are relaxing their containment and re-opening.

I’m dumfounded. First, what criteria are these governors using? Obviously not science. Do they think magic will protect people? We’ve already lost tens of thousands of Americans due to a totally inadequate response to a pandemic that was inevitable and prepared for. Our federal protections were torn apart simply out of spite by the current administration. The intelligence briefings that warned of the pandemic were ignored. There STILL is no coherent federal response.

The president has abdicated responsibility so he can blame governors if it goes wrong and take credit for anything that goes right. At the same time, he is publicly supporting armed protestors who object to those same governors. Armed protestors partly organized by a group funded by the family of the Sec of Education. We have entered a completely new realm of insanity. Yet a third of the country is still in favor.

Perhaps they think New York City was the exception. And that they will be spared.