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- Nov 13, 2019
Are you aware of the concepts of 'past' and 'future', or do you solely live in the 'present'? I mean, we're all aware that China informed the US government about the coronavirus on January 3, and continued to keep everyone updated as knowledge developed. It still took Carlson to make Trump take it marginally seriously months later.
Well to be honest I am more like a cat or dog, and I think mainly in the present tense, but people just love me for being what I am.
But to address your concerns about Trump, yes he is aware of the dangers of the Corona virus.
But at his core he is an old-school American Buisness man who has a tendency to quantify everything against itself, including the value of human life. He also seems to have blinders on, as to the cost of treating the sick, and the deaths of productive members of society. So anybody advising him has to meet him at his level.
But the idea that he is a naive man, is not accurate at this point.
His idea was "it is just a crazyflu" but he was not taking into account that health systems and most people's immune systems are prepared for the influenza virus, and that people die of the flu in predictable numbers. He also knows nothing about the conditions that healthcare workers face.
He is a business man, not a doctor, teacher or philanthropist. We can carry on bashing him, or we can stay on topic and discuss COVID, and its fallout, and the constraints and sacrifices we collectively face.