Looking around the news sites this morning, there were still plenty of flubro “it’s a hoax!” in the comments.
I will state again. Many more people will die from the stress related to the hysteria then the virus itself.
Yes. I don’t really care what they believe, but I do care that people will be put in harm’s way by this thinking. As I’ve said previously, my son does contract work in a hospital setting every day with inadequate PPE because his boss had this mindset. He has since changed his tune, but no one can get PPE now.
“Looking around the news sites this morning, there were still plenty of flubro “it’s a hoax!” in the comments.”
In Taiwan, the lady running the country assumed the worst, got a really good dentist (if you can believe it), and basically had him take over control of the country - and take steps many weeks before other infected countries were able to figure out that Communists (i.e., China and their WHO puppets) lie. The result is a very contained virus. The woman is a national hero (along with the dentist). Taiwan’s response started on Jan 1 by checking every inbound traveler.
If Trump had done the same, he would have RIDICULED for panicking over nothing. Trump really had no political choice, as I see it. He needed to let the virus spread...or no one would have believed him, including many/most who support him (and there are still daily Flubros here). That’s how bad things are in this country.
Trump was really in the same position as FDR going into World War 2 - he had to deal with a country that was simply not ready to confront a huge challenge, not even close - so FDR let us take a gut-punch to get point across (at least as far as I’m concerned).