Brace for Impact

The US death toll from COVID-19 may likely top 60,000 today.

Less than two months ago we were all tweeted to the news that coronavirus wasn't serious enough to even rise to the level of seasonal influenza.  

Today tens of thousands of my countrymen are dead along with jobs and capital vaporized.  Lives and treasure lost.  Hopes dashed.  An economy in ruin.  And Donald Trump continues to whine and complain of his perceived grievances, reinvent history, preen over his imaginary heroism and attack anyone who calls him out for continuing to lie to us.  

During these times it would be more useful to have a leader who steps-up his game, builds consensus and behaves like a head of state.  Quaint notion, eh?  Perhaps that is simply naiveté on my part.  Sure, it get it that Trump got to where he is as a perceived disrupter of the status quo.  The truth of the matter is he now is the status quo.  He broke the former status quo.  And he now owns the current status quo. 

Donald Trump did not cause this pandemic.  Yet he amplified its lethality.  Donald Trump engaged in willful blindness, shrugged-off the alarms going-off in his President's Daily Brief, and wasted precious months that should have been used to prepare and brace for impact.  

As for that disruption business – smells more like incompetence to me.