SSDD

Same Stuff(sp) Different Day.  Russian bots and badly altered videos abound, this in light of Trump turning to election mode and is taking no prisoners.  The Biden harassment story has morphed from someone keeping quiet for 25 years to having it be the ruination of her entire life even though there is no sign of any written report.  The accuser has emails praising Putin, so  I wonder why now she is insisting that Biden get out? The story keeps changing and the things he had done too, has morphed.  What I do know is that she did not accuse him of being a pussy grabber and there are not 22 other women in line accusing him of anything near what she is now accusing him of.

The continued daily attempts to downplay the virus and the death toll, Trumps minions are now questioning the total numbers as being inaccurate. I agree there is a severe undercount, not an overcount.  Their theory is thus, the vast numbers of deaths are those who were ailing from, and died from the other cause.

Recently, Trump stated we have the most cases because we have tested more than any other country, and that’s why we have the most cases.  Is this the flawed logic he is using to suppress testing and downplay efforts, because it will show more people are infected?  His boast is also untrue when you consider per capita testing. 

Take Korea. It had the 1^st case announced the same day as the U.S. Korea tested and contact traced immediately and used the test kits offered by the WHO, which Trump rejected.  As a result, Korea is now opening and has turned the corner in cases and deaths.  It’s remarkable what can happen with leadership.  The countries with more than average success combating the virus are run by women. Germany and New Zealand come to mind.  We are now at about 80,000 deaths running up to perhaps the toll originally estimated by the CDC at 200,000 to 250,000. 

I have my opinion which is based on his realization that this virus was bad only when the stock market crashed and he knew something need to be done or his chances in November were nil.  His reluctance to immediately act was him thinking there was no problem, even though plenty of warnings were given.  Only when it directly impacted him, did he respond.

His response was chaotic and had duality in purpose, installing both a medical and a Political response, each running over each other. Mike Pence ran one team, call it team “medical/science”, and Jared Kushner ran the “political/carrot-stick” self-serving response.  Each, at times, had cross- purposes.  Kushner’s team was made up of volunteers that had no experience, and therefore were useless lackeys taking orders from Jared.  Governors had PPE shipments hijacked, shipments were diverted issuing single and sole source contracts and paying 5 and 8 times going prices were the norm.

The economic team, surrounding Trump has convinced him that he must open in a robust fashion to get the economy back running and obviously he’s listening to them.  Steve Mnuchin Sect. of the Treasury and Gary Cohen economic advisor, are now projecting unemployment as high as 20-25% .  Some are going as far as 30% by end of June.  These numbers are larger than the great depression.