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Because of the US's inaction, "the whole world is paying a big price."
Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv @BandyXLee1
Donald Trump is telling us something essential about himself through “the Chinese virus,” when he says: “The world is paying a very big price for what they did.”
Remember to “translate”:
“The world is paying a very big price for what I did.”
He is very right.
At another time, the U.S. led efforts and coordinated global fights against epidemics. Now, in the absence of leadership, we not only have to compensate through haphazard local efforts, but the whole world is paying a big price.
Not only that, the U.S. has contributed to unchecked worldwide spread by being among the last of advanced nations to perform widespread testing, while its population is considerable in size and even more considerable in terms of travel.
Further, the influence the U.S. has through modeling is even greater. “Leaders” with similar psychological defects as Trump, the U.K.’s Boris Johnson and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, followed the same aggravating strategies such as minimization, defiant demonstration of hugs, etc.
Since prevention and global coordination are quintessential to containing pandemics, it is only natural that “The world is paying a very big price” for what Trump did. In the U.S., it could the difference of 1-4 million more deaths. Worldwide, immeasurable.
So we should take seriously what Trump is telling us. When the U.S. Senate acquitted him, it conferred not only a death sentence on many Americans but a scourge on innocent citizens of the world. And this is *just* coronavirus: there are numerous other, less visible analogies.
Just as with the novel coronavirus, we need to change strategy if our personal preferences prove not to work. We have seen how prevention is critical. The most expedient way seems to me is for the House to reopen impeachment and for the Senate to do it right this time.
We have said many times that a president’s mental incapacity, at this level of disability, is not an issue that the layperson can grasp or handle. It is a health issue, and politicians and policymakers need to heed us this time, as it cannot wait.
6:57 AM - Mar 20, 2020
Donald Trump is telling us something essential about himself through “the Chinese virus,” when he says: “The world is paying a very big price for what they did.”
Remember to “translate”:
“The world is paying a very big price for what I did.”
He is very right.
At another time, the U.S. led efforts and coordinated global fights against epidemics. Now, in the absence of leadership, we not only have to compensate through haphazard local efforts, but the whole world is paying a big price.
Not only that, the U.S. has contributed to unchecked worldwide spread by being among the last of advanced nations to perform widespread testing, while its population is considerable in size and even more considerable in terms of travel.
Further, the influence the U.S. has through modeling is even greater. “Leaders” with similar psychological defects as Trump, the U.K.’s Boris Johnson and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, followed the same aggravating strategies such as minimization, defiant demonstration of hugs, etc.
Since prevention and global coordination are quintessential to containing pandemics, it is only natural that “The world is paying a very big price” for what Trump did. In the U.S., it could the difference of 1-4 million more deaths. Worldwide, immeasurable.
So we should take seriously what Trump is telling us. When the U.S. Senate acquitted him, it conferred not only a death sentence on many Americans but a scourge on innocent citizens of the world. And this is *just* coronavirus: there are numerous other, less visible analogies.
Just as with the novel coronavirus, we need to change strategy if our personal preferences prove not to work. We have seen how prevention is critical. The most expedient way seems to me is for the House to reopen impeachment and for the Senate to do it right this time.
We have said many times that a president’s mental incapacity, at this level of disability, is not an issue that the layperson can grasp or handle. It is a health issue, and politicians and policymakers need to heed us this time, as it cannot wait.
6:57 AM - Mar 20, 2020
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Madness. Sheer madness. Lions led by donkeys.
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