Keep People Calm!?
While President Trump was downplaying Covid-19 to avoid ‘panic’ among Americans, he was also doing nothing to protect them
Paul Revere thought he was doing his job but that whole “redcoats are coming” thing panicked people.
The White House has a very systematic model and detailed memos on states where Covid-19 cases are growing, but they don’t share them publicly. So we don’t panic people.
Florida let go the one person in the state who tried to point out what was about to — and did — hit them. Fortunately they fired her so she didn’t panic people. Before some of them died.
We left people on the Diamond Princess so they didn’t come ashore and panic people. Same with the Navy ship.
We’re not putting together safe isolation spaces. This way we don’t panic people.
Trump told nursing homes in 2017 he wasn’t going to enforce nursing home standards on infection control. Why panic them?
Trump let 40,000 people in from China after the supposed ban. Why mention that? It would only panic people.
Trump wanted people back in church sitting elbow to elbow Easter Sunday. Why panic them with silly warnings about contagion?
