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Originally Posted by Adder
Really, the problem is the lack of leadership from the White House. Then discourse that makes the news is dominated from someone who cannot be trusted to take things seriously. Instead of a clear, national strategy, benchmarks, the ability to track progress and trustworthy communication of how we get through this, we get chaos, misinformation and armed "protesters."
Here in Minnesota, the governor is trying to get out the kinds of communications we need, but even locally it's hard not to get drowned out by the nonsense. Something like 100k jobs are allowed to restart today (hard to say how many actually will), as long as safety measures (health screening, spacing, etc) are followed.
Also, we shouldn't be waiting on testing. That is a fuck of the scale we can't yet comprehend. I don't know if it's bigger than the mistake of doing essentially no health screening of passengers arriving in this country in the middle of an infectious disease outbreak, but they're both pretty bad.
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Agreed. Trump’s daily briefings and squabbles with the media and his own team destroy any hope of confidence a reasonable person might have in the administration’s plans.
The framework he put out two weeks ago was needed, and it was helpful. It destroyed the “We must wait until all can be tested” nonsense arguments. But that should have been where he stopped. At that point, it became a state by state issue. Having him hold a conference every day where he stepped all over governors was insanely damaging.
I hate to say this, but his first instinct was right — let Pence handle this. Pence is no genius, but he knows how to say the right thing and not get into a fucking food fight with every reporter.
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