Ideas, Opinions, Genealogy, and Book Reviews
I noted earlier this morning that President Trump’s America First policy is working in COVID-19 area. In the past 24 hours we led the world in new COVID-19 cases and deaths. We are also a leader in cumulative death from the coronavirus.
Continue reading “Accelerating death rate from COVID-19”
Congratulations President Trump.
You have led the United States to a number 1 position. Setting a world record for the number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours.
It was hard but you did it. Continue reading “America First”
I used to subscribe to The Economist and I am thinking of re-subscribing. I still get their email newsletters. It is a great magazine. I found it sensible and centrist with a bit of humor.
They cover the world and are based in the UK so naturally their perspective on US events is a bit different from the American media. There was so much to read and all of it was well-written that I constantly found myself running a few issues behind. So I was very interested in their take on the upcoming presidential election.
Continue reading “Biden is Better”
In 2016 Donald Trump said he did not know who David Duke is. He was asked because David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who ran for the Senate, supported him in the election for President.
I knew about David Duke since I was living in Georgia in 1990 when he ran for the Senate from Louisiana and almost won. It seemed kind of a big deal and I assume it was national news. Somehow Mr. Trump missed it. Or maybe he just forgot or was just untruthful.
Continue reading “Is Donald Trump the David Duke of this decade ?”
I am reading Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum on my Kindle. I have been alarmed by the rise in anti-democratic beliefs in the United States including various types of authoritarianism. I decided to read this book because I had read several articles by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic. More about this later.
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I live in Pennsylvania. Being in a swing state has both advantages and disadvantages.
On the plus side our votes for President are important.
On the minus side, we probably get more political ads than other folks. And this year there is another big negative. President Trump has held several rallies around the state.
Continue reading “I live in Pennsylvania, a swing state”
President Donald Trump calls himself a “wartime president.” Now we know the war is on Americans.
Mark Meadows, the President’s chief of staff, has told us the administration “not going to control” the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump continues to fail us in addressing this pandemic. There are about 225,000 American killed by the virus and President Trump continues to lie and misinform Americans on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading “The wartime President’s war is on Americans”
President Trump likes to brag about having the greatest economy in history. As I read it, the Trump economy just allowed the Obama trends of an improving economy to continue, although not quite as well.
These graphs tell part of the story but the full article by Steven Rattner gives you more detail and goes into forecasts for the next 4 years. These graphs are from that article but you should really read the whole thing if you believe we had the greatest economy in history before the pandemic.
Continue reading “Trump’s greatest economy in history? Really!!!!”
A few days ago I mentioned President Trump’s greatest failure could be his response to COVID-19. Americans, especially old Americans, are dying because of that failure. (see President Trump continues to fail and lie so people die).
It is his ignoring of science and public heath that has resulted in many of the deaths. In particular, CDC was until the Trump Presidency one of the greatest public heath agency in world, if not actually the greatest.
President Trump’s constant interference in CDC’s public health role in the United States has been a disaster for Americans. There are now close to 220,00 of us dead and probably half or more of those would be alive if we had a better President.
For some new details on the Trump administration’s attacks on CDC, see Propublica’s Inside the Fall of the CDC.
For more of my writing on CDC see https://www.jackreidy.com/blog/?s=CDC.
President Trump continues to fail us in so many ways that it is hard to pick his greatest failure. A few days ago I mentioned his greatest failure could be his response to COVID-19. Americans, especially old Americans, are dying because of that failure.
Continue reading “President Trump ignores science, tells lies and people die”
President Trump continues to fail us in so many ways that it is hard to pick his greatest failure. Perhaps his greatest failure is his response to COVID-19. Americans, especially old Americans, are dying because of that failure.
About 220,000 Americans are dead and hundreds are being added to that each day. Somedays it is over a thousand new deaths. In addition many are seriously ill. And sometimes this illness is long term (Long Covid)
Continue reading “President Trump continues to fail and lie so people die”
President Trump now claims that the World Heath Organization (WHO) now supports his position on COVID-19.
I am not surprised that President Trump continues to lie about COVID-19. After all there are over 215,000 Ameicans dead and the President does not seem to be doing much to stop the spread.
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President Trump thinks COVID seriously affects virtually nobody unless they are older. There are over 200,000 dead and many of those deaths are in the over 65 group. Well, the Retire Guy is in that age group and I resent the president’s disregard for us older Americans.
He said that several weeks ago (see Trump’s coronavirus remarks weigh on minds of senior voters and Trump Has Declared the Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects ‘Virtually Nobody’.
Thanks to President Trump’s leadership we have seen almost 215,000 deaths in the United States and major economic problems. Yet he maintains that he has done a great job and would like us to vote to give him another 4 years.
Continue reading “Lies and election ads”
Dr. William (Bill) Foege was the director when I started at CDC. Back then (1978) it was the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Now it is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They reorganized into a series of centers with focus in specific areas and added prevention to the name but kept the acronym.
I spent 30 years at CDC and so went through many changes of Directors. As far as I was concerned, Dr. Foege was the best.
Continue reading “CDC and Dr. William (Bill) Foege”