Post by sharksrog on Dec 21, 2021 20:09:57 GMT -5
The 17th surgeon general of the United States, Richard Carmona, said of Trump's COVID performance, "The whole year was a lost opportunity to step up and be the nation we knw we could be. Instead, we were divided and looked like a struggling third-world country trying to respond to this threat even though we had the intellect, people and resources. We just needed leadership to pull us together.
"There were blunted press conferences, accusations and using this terrible pandemic as a political device to divide the country further. It was the exact antithesis of what we needed."
Trump's first instinct was to ignore the pandemic so it would go away. He wanted to protect the stock market, on which he hinged his re-election chances. Later when things went south all the way to where he himself got the disease he had pooh-poohed (and might have lost his life to if not for the special treatment he as president was able to get), he had to make the pandemic to be far less than it was just to try to keep it from tearing him down.
He took the wrong route because he had the wrong priorities, and in trying to save his own skin, committed the very errors that sunk his election ship. He tried to protect his political fortunes, and by so doing, missed his chance to win the war on the pandemic and insure his re-election. Had he protected the nation instead of himself, he would have protected himself.
"There were blunted press conferences, accusations and using this terrible pandemic as a political device to divide the country further. It was the exact antithesis of what we needed."
Trump's first instinct was to ignore the pandemic so it would go away. He wanted to protect the stock market, on which he hinged his re-election chances. Later when things went south all the way to where he himself got the disease he had pooh-poohed (and might have lost his life to if not for the special treatment he as president was able to get), he had to make the pandemic to be far less than it was just to try to keep it from tearing him down.
He took the wrong route because he had the wrong priorities, and in trying to save his own skin, committed the very errors that sunk his election ship. He tried to protect his political fortunes, and by so doing, missed his chance to win the war on the pandemic and insure his re-election. Had he protected the nation instead of himself, he would have protected himself.