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It& #39;s now clear as day. @realDonaldTrump isn& #39;t interested in scaling-up testing, contact tracing, isolation, PPE, training thousands to do tests, help manage the next phase, nor foster social distancing in any way by offering ordinary Americans more support. #coronavirus 1/
If he was, he could go to the podium at any one of his daily briefings & endorse the plans that are now peak consensus on the roadmap out of this crisis. Like a child, he just keeps asking when can we re-open, when can we re-open? Like it& #39;s all a big Xmas present for a child. 2/
He could put in motion ALL the steps we need now. Calling on Congress to appropriate bills for a massive public health scale-up. Calling on industry to make the commodities we all need. Calling on Americans to stand up to volunteer to be testers, assist in other ways. 3/
The protests by Trump loyalists yesterday scattered around the country are @POTUS& #39; id. These misguided people, risking their own health by their actions yesterday know more of what beats in the heart of @realDonaldTrump than we do. 4/
He doesn& #39;t care about public health, real lives. We are as remote to him as sheep down in a valley looked over by an incompetent, bored and petulant boy. Dots. Small dots. Meaningless. A distraction, an annoyance. 5/
As @Austan_Goolsbee has said: the first rule of virus economics is: stop the virus. It doesn& #39;t matter to the President what the right thing to do is. His advisors are family members, financiers, business people with little expertise, experience to guide us. What do they want? 6/
For this all to be over quick. So they look for the smallest signals to meet their needs. Some states have less than 1000 cases now? Hooray, let& #39;s reopen them. Is it wise, no but it& #39;s what they want. And rich little boys always get what they want. 7/
So this isn& #39;t going to end well. More suffering, both more deaths & economic carnage. Because no one can say the emperor has no clothes, that the boy-king can& #39;t just do what he wants, as @realDonaldTrump has said: "when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." 8/
