President Trump for the first time on Wednesday night acknowledged the seriousness of the coronavirus. He blamed European and Chinese people for bringing the outbreak to the U.S., describing it ominously as a “foreign virus.” https://t.co/tRMWVM69QB— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 12, 2020
It's very disturbing to me that Trump still seems to see the coronavirus as more of an economic disruption than a health care crisis, that there is a lack of transparency in the decision-making processes, that the delays in testing still don't seem to be being addressed while the administration is touting low infection figure that are not valid because of the lack of testing (and this is an unfolding major issue for many reasons), and with his speech last night, the president looked, well? Not great. The travel restrictions don't make sense, and in conveying them in his stilted TelePrompter speech, some of the details conveyed were just wrong and had to be clarified after the fact. This does not instill confidence at all.
We need leadership, not denial; expertise, not excuses. But what we have is Trump.
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