Coronavirus thread tangent

But you can't ignore the fact that he is employed by Trump. If he went all, "this is unreal how this is being handled. Every suggestion I make is being thrown out the window. I can't get cooperation from the guy". He'd be fired the next day and we'd have a new guy watching over the situation. This is a man who has "advised" governors of states to be appreciative of his help and to not critique him.

Not that he was fired, but general Mattis resigned as secretary of defense after he told Trump, “You’re going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to ISIS. I’m not going to do it". Trump ignored his advisor and they resigned as a result. In a situation like this, Dr. Fauci (assuming he doesn't agree with Trump 100%, which is a BIG assumption) has to decide if he can be more helpful playing along and working on the crisis at hand as best as he can while lying through his teeth about the performance of the president or he can go off-script, get fired, and then replaced. Dr. Fauci has shown signs of contradicting the president's performance so it's not hard to fathom that as a possibility.

I agree the journalism in this country is complete trash. It's entirely unbelievable, the outlet caters to your preferred political affiliation, it's full of half-truths and sometimes flat out lies and they sensationalize everything. There's a few quality outlets left, but even they've shown cracks like NPR.


I don't think he was prepared at all for this. I've been following the news of Coronavirus since China first admitted to the problem. I knew through Googling how dangerous this had the potential to be. That someone can have it and show no signs for 5 or more days and still pass it along and the bodies that were piling up in China. There wasn't anyone in his cabinet that was aware of this problem? Why are we still lacking tests? Banning China travel is great and all, but we did so after the first case came to America and Americans were still coming back into the country from China without screening. No inbound flights into the country had screening. That's cool you banned China, but what about someone who stopped over in Japan and then came here? He banned Europe, but excluded UK and Ireland and had to later add them to the list after cases widened.

Beaches remaining open long after the threat, states going off and doing their own things. He might not have the power to initiate a lockdown for every state (I think he does), but he can pressure all governors publicly. Instead, he has again and again lied and called it, "the flu", "a liberal hoax", "fear mongering". He has claimed "it's contained". He has promised it wouldn't spread. Now America has more cases than anyone in the entire world.

Supposedly, we're going to open up by Easter because, "it's a beautiful timeline". There's no logic or reason for it, but he expects the churches to be packed though. A Louisiana pastor is defying law and claiming he just had 1,000 people at his ceremony in the state where this is fastest growing (at least from what I heard, but it's chaos in NYC) and to my knowledge nothing is being done about him.

I say all this as someone who has voted for him and was planning on voting for him.