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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident-Elect Biden's Chief of Staff wrote THIS re: Covid. In JANUARY
Coronavirus Is ComingAnd Trump Isnt Ready
In order to combat the disease, the president will have to trust the kind of government experts he has disdained and dismissed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/now-trump-needs-deep-state-fight-coronavirus/605752/
The U.S. government has the tools, talent, and team to help fight the coronavirus abroad and minimize its impact at home. But the combination of Trumps paranoia toward experienced government officials (who lack loyalty to him), inattention to detail, opinionated rejection of science and evidence, and isolationist instincts may prove toxic when it comes to managing a global-health security challenge. To succeed, Trump will have to trust the kind of government experts he has disdained to date, set aside his own terrible instincts, lead from the White House, and work closely with foreign leaders and global institutionsall things he has failed to do in his first 1,200 days in office.
We do not know yet how grave a threat the new coronavirus will turn out to be. On the one hand, scientists have quickly sequenced the virus and are working on a vaccine. China has imposed draconian quarantines to slow the viruss spread, and is rapidly building massive new hospitals to treat its victims. To date, the U.S. has seen only a handful of cases, all of them the product of travel to China, not transmission here. These are causes for concern, but not overwrought fear.
But on the other hand, there are some worrisome developments. Models suggest that the cases in China may number in the hundreds of thousandsmany times what the government has reported. Perhaps a million or more people left Wuhan before the quarantines, and could be spreading the virus widely. Other countries are reporting cases of the virus among people who were not in China; there are even reports that individuals may be infectious before the onset of symptoms (a substantial complication to traditional public-health screening). And the economic impact of a massive epidemic in China on the global economy is difficult to predict.
What will Trump do about it? His track record offers us two data points, one horrible and one merely disappointing.
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We do not know yet how grave a threat the new coronavirus will turn out to be. On the one hand, scientists have quickly sequenced the virus and are working on a vaccine. China has imposed draconian quarantines to slow the viruss spread, and is rapidly building massive new hospitals to treat its victims. To date, the U.S. has seen only a handful of cases, all of them the product of travel to China, not transmission here. These are causes for concern, but not overwrought fear.
But on the other hand, there are some worrisome developments. Models suggest that the cases in China may number in the hundreds of thousandsmany times what the government has reported. Perhaps a million or more people left Wuhan before the quarantines, and could be spreading the virus widely. Other countries are reporting cases of the virus among people who were not in China; there are even reports that individuals may be infectious before the onset of symptoms (a substantial complication to traditional public-health screening). And the economic impact of a massive epidemic in China on the global economy is difficult to predict.
What will Trump do about it? His track record offers us two data points, one horrible and one merely disappointing.
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President-Elect Biden's Chief of Staff wrote THIS re: Covid. In JANUARY (Original Post)
Roland99
Nov 2020
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(295,899 posts)1. Like I said on another thread.. Ron Klain
is Brilliant!
Ron Klain
Mr. Evil
(2,746 posts)4. Competence matters. Short, to the point and 100% true.
It also needs to be shouted at every republican conspiracy wingnut daily.
IronLionZion
(45,254 posts)5. The Biden administration knows what they're doing
while the other side sends out idiotic tweets without actually doing anything useful
Roland99
(53,342 posts)6. Pence went on vacation after he was supposedly restarting the task force
IronLionZion
(45,254 posts)9. His career is over
Maybe he can go back to conservative talk radio
malaise
(267,796 posts)7. Watched him on Lawrence last night - impressive
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)8. Ron Klain did a podcast dedicated to the Coronavirus.
Hes very well informed on the topic.