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It's a crowded field but this may prove to be the single most damaging thing he's ever said about COVID. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070
It's not a choice between living recklessly vs living in fear. It's a choice to live responsibly, to balance sensible precautions with continuing to live our lives.
He is still, even now, trying to frame a false choice.
He is still, even now, trying to frame a false choice.
He wants you to believe we must choose between taking no risks or accepting all risks.
That's not the choice, that was never the choice.
The choice was and is incompetent outbreak response vs competent outbreak response.
That's not the choice, that was never the choice.
The choice was and is incompetent outbreak response vs competent outbreak response.
We were never going to be South Korea, but we could have been Germany - early surge, followed by evidence-based and competent government response.
German businesses are open, German kids are back in school. Safely.
German businesses are open, German kids are back in school. Safely.
That outcome doesn't come from *fearing* the virus.
It comes from *understanding* it.
When you understand it, you can balance the first and second-order risks while controlling the spread.
We've done the opposite.
It comes from *understanding* it.
When you understand it, you can balance the first and second-order risks while controlling the spread.
We've done the opposite.
Because of a government that has ignored evidence-based strategy, and ignored risks rather than balancing and managing them, we have the worst of both worlds: a ineptly led response that both damages livelihoods *and* fails at controlling the virus.
Trump's whole ballgame here is to distract you from that incompetence.
To forget that there is an alternate timeline in which we could be, like Germany, living both safely and somewhat closer to normal. Instead of here, in the darkest timeline.
To forget that there is an alternate timeline in which we could be, like Germany, living both safely and somewhat closer to normal. Instead of here, in the darkest timeline.
Don't fall for it.
If he emerges from his illness without enduring damage to his health, good for him. And good for the world-class doctors who treated him. But that doesn't make the virus any more or less deadly than it was.
If he emerges from his illness without enduring damage to his health, good for him. And good for the world-class doctors who treated him. But that doesn't make the virus any more or less deadly than it was.
And if his supporters take this tweet as license to ignore the risks - which is clearly his intent - it will lead to many more deaths.
