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How Is It This Race Is Competitive?
We can’t hate each other that much.
This President completely bungled one of the biggest crises in the nation’s history, and also throws wrench after wrench at our ability to respond as a people.
Hundreds of thousands of American people are dead. About a hundred thousand more people are getting sick in the U.S. every day. That’s record levels. About a thousand more people are dying ever day. It didn’t have to be that way.
No plan to fix or even provide some relief. The antibody “cure” the President says he got and promised to everybody “for free”, is not available to you or me. Unless we can fight our way into a clinical trial, and then we might only get a placebo. The President didn’t get any placebo.
And that’s on him: he could’ve invested in mass production of therapeutics long ago. But no, he put everything behind a vaccine. Beyond that, we are on our own and have been from the start.
So some strategy from a President, or at least showing his heart was in the right place would’ve helped. Some response that wasn’t totally confrontational, and didn’t focus entirely on himself as a victim of something that was entirely China’s fault, but instead on the true victims: all those dead Americans.
