Subj : Re: Pandemic
To : Aaron Thomas
From : Dan Cross
Date : Fri Apr 03 2020 07:17 am
On 01 Apr 2020 at 12:48p, Aaron Thomas pondered and said...
AT> DC> The cognitive dissonance is so strong that they just
AT> DC> cannot see how incompetent he is. What happened to
AT>
AT> Incompetent at what? Being an epidemic expert?
Umm...more like incompetent at everything he tries.
AT> How would liberals react if Trump completely closed down the country,
AT> took power away from governors, and mandated that all citizens remain on
AT> their own property until a solution to the virus could be found? Will
AT> that make liberals happy, or will they complain that "the president is
AT> over-reacting?"
IF it were done in accordance to a data-driven
policy recommendation backed by actual experts, I
imagine most would accept it as the inevitable
response to an out-of-control pandemic that was
allowed to gain a foothold in the first place
because it wasn't taken seriously by government.