Here is a quote in the running for worst prediction of year.

And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.

President Trump, February 26, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/

The couple of days part is definitely wrong.

Pretty good job just indicates pretty low standards in the Trump administration.

But extra points for leaving out the part about about the road to zero running through over a million cases and well over 80,000 deaths.

President Trump is offering a false choice. He wants to open the economy and bring prosperity back to America. His Democratic enemies want to keep the county shut-down for years to make him look bad.

Vice President Biden discussed this and the behavior of the President in failing to address this COVID-19 crisis in the today’s Washington Post. It is worth reading-

Joe Biden: How the White House coronavirus response presents us with a false choice

To just follow-up briefly on my previous post where I asked about stupid or just misinformed, I wanted to give you an example of how people are misinformed.

Yesterday there was a news article about a New York City bar owner who died of COVID-19 because he was misinformed about the threat by Fox News and President Trump. Read about it here-
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/nyregion/coronavirus-jjbubbles-joe-joyce.html

It says a lot about the sad state of things here when you cannot believe either certain news outlets or the President of the United States. Sadder still is that people will die because of the misinformation. Probably many people.

President Trump announced that the United States will cut-off funding to the World Health Organization. As those who have read this blog probably know, I am not a big fan of President Trump and don’t think very highly of his ideas or actions. But cutting off funding to the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic has to be one of his worst ideas.
Continue reading “Defunding WHO”

Should we continue to maintain social distancing? That is, remain at home to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The way I look at it is –
1. President Trump wants to end distancing by Easter
2. Experts say don’t end it in the next few weeks

I think we should listen to the public health experts.
Continue reading “Not the time to ease social distancing”

The COVID-19 pandemic is much worse in the United States than it should be. This is due to a failure of federal response until fairly late in the spread of the virus. We can blame President Trump for most of this problem did not take the warning signs seriously. The blame is shared with those federal officials who should have contradicted him and gone public with what they knew.

The is a long story in about this delay and why this lost time is making things worse. It is long but worth reading. here is a link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/

President Trump’s misinformation continues. I thought he was starting to take this coronavirus pandemic seriously but I guess not.
Continue reading “President Trump’s misinformation”