The US is losing the 'discipline' to fight coronavirus

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The US is losing the ‘discipline’ to fight coronavirus and is ‘leaving the battlefield before the war is over’

June 11, 2020

By Alex Henderson, AlterNet

After months of social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are longing to get back to normal. But truth be told, “normal” will not return until there is a COVID-19 vaccine and it is widely available. And British journalist Edward Luce, in a Financial Times article published on June 11, fears that too many Americans are no longer willing to take the steps necessary to reduce the COVID-19 death count in the United States.

“Downgrading the fight now would be like George Washington taking a vacation after crossing the Delaware,” asserts Luce, a frequent guest on MSNBC. “Mission accomplished only works when there is a vaccine, which is at least a year away. Yet large parts of the country, including Donald Trump, are taking victory laps.”

As of early Thursday morning, June 11, the coronavirus pandemic had killed more than 417,000 people worldwide — and more than 112,900 of them were in the United States (according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore). The death count keeps climbing and climbing in the U.S, but as Luce points out, President Trump is acting like the pandemic no longer poses a major threat and that the worst is over.

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“Trump will restart his reelection campaign next week with a full-blown rally in Oklahoma — his first since early March,” Luce observes. “That will give a green light for Americans to crowd together again without censure. Las Vegas is broadcasting even starker images. Its slot machines are ringing again. To judge by the footage, most punters are not wearing masks…. The U.S. is now on the verge of leaving the battlefield before the war is over.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/the-us-is-losing-the-discipline-to-fight-coronavirus-and-is-leaving-the-battlefield-before-the-war-is-over/

Link to Financial Times piece, but it's behind a paywall:

https://www.ft.com/content/b223f1cb-a6ed-4c40-8352-4a065ff084fb

[Renew Deal]

1. That's because our leader is weak

And he surrendered before the fight is over, as always.

It's not just Trump that's weak, it's the entire republican party and conservatives as a whole. They don't have the toughness to win a battle against a disease, let alone a war.

[RKP5637]

4. Damn, I forgot we even had a president. All I've seen is some ass that looks like a clown. n/t

[brer cat]

2. Here in GA I see more and more people out

with fewer and fewer wearing masks and observing distancing rules. Most seem to really believe it is over while cases are increasing.

[jmg257]

3. Yep. The protesting pointed out that there are other things to worry about. BTW I can tell

the looting and rioting and protests are over cause all the MSM are talking about the horrors of C-19 again.

Its gonna be nasty.

Edit: Holy Shit - CNN has the stats again. Ah well, rest in peace George.

[soothsayer]

5. Leaders such as Cuomo are fighting the good fight

I think today’s will be his 103rd consecutive day of coranavirus briefings (sometimes he had them twice daily).

Continues to hammer home the need for continued vigilance, every single day.

I watch every day just to remember what leadership looks like.

[UTUSN]

6. Yip, the VFW bar - *nobody* with a mask (except me)

My first time out last night there. They had the bar-bar taped off with police yellow tape. The table area was down to half the numbers of tables, sounds good, no? Well, card table size, with four to a table close. About 15 total old (susceptible) dudes. You know, *tough* John WAYNE (draft dodger) dudes who had things to say about the FLOYD funeral on t.v., not positive if you know what I mean.

Yea, John WAYNE and police yellow tape - mucho macho!1

My preference is to sit at the bar, but I weaved through the tables to one. I was the only one with a mask and listened hard for any suppressed snickers.

Supposedly, restricting the bar is to protect the barmaid. Uh, it's a long bar and seats there could be much farther from one another than at the card tables. Plus the barmaid now brings the products to the tables, leaning into the crowded dudes, but it does provide them more opportunity to leer down her front, so there's that.

[RobinA]

7. Well, It Was Always

going to happen. I think Americans held out for longer then expected. The protesting et al. became the story and pushed COVID into the ditch by the side of the road. At this point it's in the rear view mirror. Some leadership would have helped, but barring any REALLY bad news, I think that ship has sailed.