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Arkansas Granny
Arkansas Granny's Journal
Arkansas Granny's Journal
April 1, 2020
A President Unfit For A Pandemic
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, its clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the worlds richest country to a season of untold suffering.
The United States, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research institutions and hospitals, is now the hub of a global pandemic that has infected at least 745,000 people and already claimed more than 35,000 lives worldwide. Now that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States more than 140,000 has surpassed that of any other nation, Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise.
While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable. As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, its worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, its clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the worlds richest country to a season of untold suffering.
The United States, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research institutions and hospitals, is now the hub of a global pandemic that has infected at least 745,000 people and already claimed more than 35,000 lives worldwide. Now that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States more than 140,000 has surpassed that of any other nation, Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise.
While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable. As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, its worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership.
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