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napi21

(45,806 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:58 PM Mar 2020

You all know I'm no faan of Orangeman, but WHY is every member of the media saying we're in [View all]

this mess because of failure of leadership. I KNOW we have no leadership, but as a Country, are we that inept that we can't at least begin to prepare for what the medical community knew was coming? There's a guy on MSNBC now telling Rachel we are grossly underprepared. Not enough testing, not enough hospital beds, the list is LONG! I agree a good leader would have instructed the proper agencies to get on it, but I think there should be other leaders who should have stepped forward to get the ball rolling on the right track.

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You all know I'm no faan of Orangeman, but WHY is every member of the media saying we're in [View all] napi21 Mar 2020 OP

because trump fired people and dismantled protective agencies that could msongs Mar 2020 #1

Absolutely!!! K&R!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2020 #3

+ 1,000. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #5

THIS malaise Mar 2020 #18

K&R, China reported CV19 genetic sequence on Jan 12!! We still don't have WHO's mass test kits !! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #19

Trump refused to take the test kits offered from the WHO, fyi. nt littlemissmartypants Mar 2020 #24

WOW !!! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #26

Yep. nt littlemissmartypants Mar 2020 #35

Because he wanted to make money by investing in secondwind Mar 2020 #36

There are no other leaders. Everyone who has the power to do these things is a Trump stooge, The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #2

Cuts, cuts and more cuts Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #4

Yes failure in leadership in many places, but buck stops where? at140 Mar 2020 #6

We were grossly under prepared decades ago leftstreet Mar 2020 #7

How many hospitals are run as non-profits? Don't forget bureaucracy. It's a killer. Literally. 58Sunliner Mar 2020 #8

Far fewer than there used to be. marybourg Mar 2020 #28

Hospitals started consolidating quite awhile ago. There's far fewer of them as a result... Hekate Mar 2020 #31

Because Trump insisted cyclonefence Mar 2020 #9

+1, Trump empirically made things worse uponit7771 Mar 2020 #20

Repukes want POTUS to be a god-king (when he's one of them anyway), so what do you get? RockRaven Mar 2020 #10

It's a failure of the American healthcare system TexasBushwhacker Mar 2020 #11

Not quite. We don't have a healthcare system. We have a healthcare industry. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #13

Sickcare Industry MoonlitKnight Mar 2020 #33

All those things would cost money. gristy Mar 2020 #12

Federal agencies used to work stillcool Mar 2020 #14

We are ALL Puerto Rico now. The Republicans have finally "drowned the government in the bathtub." VOX Mar 2020 #15

All Trump wanted to control was the message. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #16

Remember when we were inundated with the Ebola virus, under Obama in 2014? ReformedGOPer Mar 2020 #17

They should have been allowed to stockpile much needed PPE gear. herding cats Mar 2020 #21

Thanks for mentioning that. I should have known re the non-profits but never put 2+2 together. I napi21 Mar 2020 #22

You're fine. You asked an honest question. herding cats Mar 2020 #25

Really? SlogginThroughIt Mar 2020 #23

See your point. We can't just blame trump. Look Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #27

Yes we can, he fired the Pandemic response team, rejected the WHO spec test, spread fake news ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #30

No argument there. The point is the we have to rely Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #39

..👍🏼 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #41

Love this tweet response to Malcolm Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #40

Trump deliberately hollowed out the government, especially of career civil servants... Hekate Mar 2020 #29

Spot on and very well said ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #32

That is not how Federalism works. Caliman73 Mar 2020 #34

Because he fired the people who knew how to do the jobs lunatica Mar 2020 #37

Because of Republicans and their beloved unfettered libertarian capitalism. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #38

90 days ago WHO offered us tests...and we refused Fresh_Start Mar 2020 #42

No republicans will challenge trump. It's sad, lame and dangerous People are dying. spanone Mar 2020 #43