Compliments of the New York Times
‘Covid, covid covid’ – Trump says opponents are using the pandemic to make him look bad. His opponents are correct. And Yes his opponents and the news media has every right to report the facts to the public. His handling of the virus has been a disaster. By Trump’s own admission to Bob Woodward in February he knew that the disease was going to have a disastrous impact on the public but wanted to ‘play it down.’
THE NYT notes that there have been 500,000 cases recorded this week, and “half of U.S. counties saw new cases peak during the past month. Almost a third saw a record in the past week.” TAKE A LOOK at the hardest-hit areas, and they line up with some of the most critical areas for the presidential contest: vast swaths of Midwestern swing states.
WaPo’s JULIE ZAUZMER notes: “The daily rate of new coronavirus cases in DC rose above 10 per 100,000 residents today for the first time in months. Today’s rate is the highest since June 8. On Sept. 30, we were at 5.1 per 100,000.”
Mismanagement of controlling the virus spread provides another message. Donald Trump does not function well in an emergency. He turns everything into an opportunity to remake the government in his image.
We have now had 27 hurricanes hitting the Gulf coast this year. The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year from June through November. We could experience more this year. Hope is not a strategy. “The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency.”
As I post this commentary early afternoon in California the number of new corona virus exceeds 67,000 today. Yes, ‘Covid, covid covid’ should be topic one!
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