What this crisis reveals about US?

[PoliTalker]

Hello and welcome Benny seso,

What a “spectacular failure of leadership”, In January, US president Donald Trump said Covid-19 was “totally under control”. The next month, as the virus swept the world, he predicted it would soon disappear – “like a miracle” – and, just last week, he said he hoped the US would be “open by Easter”. This week, as the country’s death toll passed 4,000 – more than China’s official toll, or the number who perished on 9/11 – Trump finally admitted that won’t be possible. Instead, he said that his administration would have done a “very good job” if it kept the death toll below 200,000. As of Wednesday, the US had 190,000 cases (more than China and Italy combined).
source: http://www.vikilix.com/2020/04/04/wh...eals-about-us/

Yes, agreed. DT handled it very badly. The economy did not have to crash. Nobody needed to get fired. It should have been handled like Europe. They didn't get the mass unemployment there because the governments just pay the businesses to keep their workers on the payroll even if they are not working to observe social distancing. We screwed up by letting all these people get fired and businesses go belly up and then coming in with rescue stimulus money. It would have been better spent up front to just pay the businesses to keep workers. That way the workers retain their healthcare insurance, which many of them just lost, along with their job. Seems bass-ackwards. There is no way to easily put that all back together again in a few months. The economy is not coming roaring back, and that is the cost of bad leadership.

[TTQ64]

business received tax breaks. pay slave wages and have been bailed out several times they should have enough money to keep their employees and pay each employee sick leave.

THEY DON'T DESERVE ANY MORE TAX PAYER MONEY. They already have all the power.....MORE MONEY IS MORE POWER!

THE POWER SHOULD BE WITH THE PEOPLE!.......it's our money. The racist right wants business to get all our money.

STOP BELIEVING IN RACIST RIGHT WING REPUBLICAN POLITICS.

[Gonzomin]

how is a hint of optimism a failure of leadership?

I guess because it was not true and endangered the citizens.

[TTQ64]

Give my tax money to the homeless or undocumented worker, or single mother who can barely put food on the table.

Walmart doesn't need my tax dollars.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

I guess because it was not true and endangered the citizens.

hindsight is 2020, dipshit.

[Stone]

Esp. that one. He claimed to be a native from Lac Du Flambeau in Wisconsin. Since then he's gone on several racist rants about natives. I bet he's also (depending on his audience) a doctor, a pilot, a best-selling author, a movie star, a top rock guitarist, an undersea explorer, a millionaire, and King of Narnia.

Lying again I see. Not one post of mine ever said I was a " native" meaning native American. NOT one. Show me the post,....you cant!

[Stone]

Owl also posted that I made posts where I claimed to be a doctor and an Educator. She made this post only two weeks ago. Can anyone in here show these so called posts she claims I made?? No you cant because it never happened. Pretty easy to see who the real liar is here,....drunk old buzzard bitch,...not me.

[Doc Dutch]

What a “spectacular failure of leadership”, In January, US president Donald Trump said Covid-19 was “totally under control”. The next month, as the virus swept the world, he predicted it would soon disappear – “like a miracle” – and, just last week, he said he hoped the US would be “open by Easter”. This week, as the country’s death toll passed 4,000 – more than China’s official toll, or the number who perished on 9/11 – Trump finally admitted that won’t be possible. Instead, he said that his administration would have done a “very good job” if it kept the death toll below 200,000. As of Wednesday, the US had 190,000 cases (more than China and Italy combined).
source: http://www.vikilix.com/2020/04/04/wh...eals-about-us/

That's what this crisis reveals about Trump, not the US. This CNN video "Saluting America's COVID-19 heroes" says more about what this crisis reveals about the US: https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/0...-cnnheroes.cnn

[Doc Dutch]

We elected a guy because he used to host a reality show. Now we on Survivor.

...and, no matter how deplorable he is, he was the better choice of the two nominated by the major parties.

[signalmankenneth]

(CNN)President Donald Trump and his team face a painful dilemma: If they take the draconian measures necessary to halt the coronavirus pandemic the economy will likely fall into not just a recession, but even a depression. On the other hand, if they take only half measures to halt the spread of the virus we could see the worst pandemic in American history.

The Trump administration has, by default, fallen into something of a middle ground between these two paths that is likely to lead both to a bad pandemic and a deep recession.

The costs of letting the disease spread uncontrollably were laid out in sobering detail in a study published last week by Imperial College, London. It found that as many as 2.2 million people could die of Covid-19 in the US if the disease were to spread completely uncontrolled. By way of comparison, 675,000 American died of the Spanish flu in 1918.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/opini..._blogfooterold

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[Bill]

We elected a guy because he used to host a reality show. Now we on Survivor.

[Bill]

(CNN)President Donald Trump and his team face a painful dilemma: If they take the draconian measures necessary to halt the coronavirus pandemic the economy will likely fall into not just a recession, but even a depression. On the other hand, if they take only half measures to halt the spread of the virus we could see the worst pandemic in American history.

The Trump administration has, by default, fallen into something of a middle ground between these two paths that is likely to lead both to a bad pandemic and a deep recession.

The costs of letting the disease spread uncontrollably were laid out in sobering detail in a study published last week by Imperial College, London. It found that as many as 2.2 million people could die of Covid-19 in the US if the disease were to spread completely uncontrolled. By way of comparison, 675,000 American died of the Spanish flu in 1918.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/opini..._blogfooterold

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he is now faced w/ the same/very similar dilemma as Hoover..... I hope that I am wrong but it seems he is leaning towards making the same mistakes as well..

His lashing out & temper tantrums towards, doctors, hospitals & states will not serve him or the nation well but are sadly indicative of someone suffering & struggling to keep up w/ events..

[signalmankenneth]

Amen?

[Bill]

Amen?

What is sad here, no one doubts he feels exactly this way....

[Gonzomin]

hindsight is 2020, dipshit.

Read post 12. It is a continuing saga of lies and mistakes. Have someone in your bunker read it to you and explain it. Asshole,prick, dumb fuck dork shit for brains. See how much better my post became when I added the names? Why do you do that?