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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitico: Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
It seems like the White House is in full spin mode trying to blame local officials and claiming that Trump took the pandemic seriously from the outset.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465
On Friday, as coronavirus infections rapidly multiplied aboard a cruise ship marooned off the coast of California, health department officials and Vice President Mike Pence came up with a plan to evacuate thousands of passengers, avoiding the fate of a similar cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, which became a petri dish of coronavirus infections. Quickly removing passengers was the safest outcome, health officials and Pence reasoned.
But President Donald Trump had a different idea: Leave the infected passengers on board which would help keep the number of U.S. coronavirus cases as low as possible.
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For six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administrations own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Members of Congress have grilled top officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield over the governments biggest mistake: failing to secure enough testing to head off a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. But many current and former Trump administration officials say the true management failure was Trumps.
It always ladders to the top, said one person helping advise the administrations response, who noted that Trumps aides discouraged Azar from briefing the president about the coronavirus threat back in January. Trumps created an atmosphere where the judgment of his staff is that he shouldnt need to know these things.
But President Donald Trump had a different idea: Leave the infected passengers on board which would help keep the number of U.S. coronavirus cases as low as possible.
* * *
For six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administrations own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Members of Congress have grilled top officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield over the governments biggest mistake: failing to secure enough testing to head off a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. But many current and former Trump administration officials say the true management failure was Trumps.
It always ladders to the top, said one person helping advise the administrations response, who noted that Trumps aides discouraged Azar from briefing the president about the coronavirus threat back in January. Trumps created an atmosphere where the judgment of his staff is that he shouldnt need to know these things.
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Politico: Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis (Original Post)
TomCADem
Mar 2020
OP
Somehow Trump's virus "response" has 60% approval, and his overall approval rate has gone from
Drumpf hater
Mar 2020
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Drumpf hater
(18 posts)1. Somehow Trump's virus "response" has 60% approval, and his overall approval rate has gone from
The low 40s (where it seemingly always was) to the high 40s.
I have no idea why.
JHB
(37,161 posts)3. Pay no attention to that now. Check again (briefly) in a month.
Then check again in two.
Either the situation will be the same, in which case you will have spared yourself two months of gut-busting, or, after we reach the "Italy X5" phase of the pandemic, it will be a completely different situation.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)2. What could have been vs. What was