Posted on May 30, 2020
From 'We've shut it down' to 100,000 US dead
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It's an uncanny and almost tragically perfect piece of symmetry.
The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - over an aggregate 44 years of fighting - is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who've now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America's war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.
He also calls it the Chinese virus, but we'll come to that.
Now I know you could replace the Covid-19 deaths with US cancer deaths or road crash victims and come up with similarly stark or perhaps even more dramatic statistics. But sadly, fatal car accidents and terminal tumours have always been with us. A global pandemic has not. And out of nowhere 100,000 American families are this spring mourning loved ones, whose lives have been cut short by this virus. 1.5m Americans have been infected. Many millions more have lost their jobs.
The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - over an aggregate 44 years of fighting - is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who've now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America's war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.
He also calls it the Chinese virus, but we'll come to that.
Now I know you could replace the Covid-19 deaths with US cancer deaths or road crash victims and come up with similarly stark or perhaps even more dramatic statistics. But sadly, fatal car accidents and terminal tumours have always been with us. A global pandemic has not. And out of nowhere 100,000 American families are this spring mourning loved ones, whose lives have been cut short by this virus. 1.5m Americans have been infected. Many millions more have lost their jobs.
From 'We've shut it down' to 100,000 US dead
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Our pandemic planning and response was an abomination. There were plans and they were very well written and showed a lot of thought went into the plans. However, Trump showed poor leadership. HHS was supposed to take on the medical piece. DHS was supposed to provide unified leadership and coordination for interagency purposes. What we got were belated responses with very little organization and thought. The response was chaotic and ad hoc. Every mistake we could have made, we made.
Trump thinks he is a badass president, but could not hold a candle to FDR. FDR had the intelligence and vision to see that Germany and Japan were threats to the world and the US. He acted early by supplying and equipping the English and Russians to keep them in the war. He conducted necessary shaping operations to ensure Allied Forces would prevail in WWII. There is no way in hell Trump would have the intelligence to replicate FDRs actions.
Trump thinks he is a badass president, but could not hold a candle to FDR. FDR had the intelligence and vision to see that Germany and Japan were threats to the world and the US. He acted early by supplying and equipping the English and Russians to keep them in the war. He conducted necessary shaping operations to ensure Allied Forces would prevail in WWII. There is no way in hell Trump would have the intelligence to replicate FDRs actions.
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