Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
I find this post bizarre. Why is it bizarre? Because we know in some detail at this point what the Trump administration has done and has failed to do, prior to the crisis and in reacting to the crisis.

There was infrastructure established under the prior administration to monitor and advise on events exactly like the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump dismantled this infrastructure.

There were protocols independent of infrastructure that had been prepared from long experience of past administrations, pursuant to events exactly like the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump actively disregarded these protocols.

He continues to undermine his government's response to this day, leaving the individual states almost to fend for themselves in a carnival mirror type of federalism.

There's no mystery here.


When I was 7 years old I asked my mom if the stove was hot. She said it was. I touched the stove to check. I burned my finger.

In that instance it would have been more credible for 7-year-old me to exclaim that no one could have foreseen this and that hindsight is 20/20, than for someone to do so on Trump's behalf.
"Bizarre?"

Do you enjoy goading people or like to use rude epithets for self-entertainment?

You are making an ex-post-facto judgement. Trump's admin made a mistake in judgment, probably in part to their tendency to dismantle any Obama effort regardless of its quality because of the authorship. Dumb call. But it doesn't invalidate my point as to resources and threat potentials. A call must be made in advance.

They will be judged for their choice. Enough said.