In normal times. In normal times, @CDCgov, @NIH & @US_FDA would have been empowered to lead our response to #SARSCOV2. 1/

In normal times. In normal times, experts on every aspect of this, from epidemiologists, to economists, to engineers, to psychologists would have gladly stepped up to help the federal response. In normal times. 2/

In normal times. In normal times, our leaders would have tried their best to buffer the shocks we are facing to our lives, social and economic, with a real relief package aimed at ordinary Americans. In normal times. 3/

In normal times. In normal times, the US response would look like Germany's, Australia's, other countries who weathered the #COVID19 pandemic better than we have. In normal times. 4/

In normal times. In normal times, we would have had a national testing, tracing and isolation strategy that allowed us to realistically talk about reopening schools this fall without the specter of mass infections. In normal times. 5/

In normal times. In normal times, healthcare workers would not have to re-cycle their N95 masks and we'd have enough to give to teachers and others in close/frequent contact jobs. In normal times. 6/

In normal times. In normal times, we'd have leaders who gave us hope but would treat the evidence about new drugs to treat #COVID19 with the utmost serious. In normal times. 7/

But none of this is normal. Our national response to #COVID19 is chaos, fueled by pseudo-science, malice and incompetence, a cult-like devotion to the President by governors, members of Congress of his own party. 180,000 dead. Many more yet to come. This didn't have to happen. 8/

. @realDonaldTrump will play a game of smoke & mirrors to distract us over the next 63 days, when what he really is doing is playing with our lives. He is an abject failure of historical proportions. Each of the dead? They are his. He owns all of this. end/