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Local politics, the county, and the world, as viewed by Tammy Maygra Tammy’s views are her own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bill Eagle, his pastor, Tammy’s neighbors, Wayne Mayo, Betsy Johnson, Brad Witt, President Trump, Henry Heimuller, VP Pence, Pat Robertson, Debi Corsiglia’s dog, or Claudia Eagle’s Cats. This Tammy’s Take (with the exception of this disclaimer) is not paid for or written by, or even reviewed by anyone but Tammy and she refuses to be bullied by anyone.
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Trump’s Failure
Projections show that more than 127,000 coronavirus deaths in the country by June 27. Shut downs saved 60 million people from being infected. Please continue to social distance and wear masks so there is not a resurgence. But, after all the protests and opening up of the country we will have more infections and deaths. Trump is a liar, Nazi, a egotistical pig, has a narcissistic personality, is demented, hateful no caring fool. Trump fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans than the 9/11 attacks. By the first weekend in April, the virus had killed more Americans than any single battle of the Civil War. By Easter, it may have killed more Americans than the Korean War. On the present trajectory, it will kill, by late April, more Americans than Vietnam. Having earlier promised that casualties could be held near zero, Trump now claims he will have done a “very good job” if the toll is held below 200,000 dead. That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts gap in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault again. The refusal of red-state governors to act promptly, the failure to close Florida and Gulf Coast beaches until late March? That fault is more widely shared, but again, responsibility rests with Trump: He could have stopped it, and he did not. Because he is smarter than any doctor or scicentist. The lying about the coronavirus by Fox News and conservative talk radio is Trump’s fault: They did it to protect him because they too hate the common citizen. The false hope of instant cures and nonexistent vaccines is Trump’s fault, because he told those lies to cover up his failure to act in time, he blames everyone else for his failures. The severity of the economic crisis is Trump’s fault; things would have been less bad if he had acted faster instead of sending out his chief economic adviser and his son Eric to assure Americans that the first stock-market dips were buying opportunities. The firing of a Navy captain for speaking truthfully about the virus’s threat to his crew? Trump’s fault. The fact that so many key government jobs were either empty or filled by unqualified people all Trump’s fault. The insertion of Trump’s arrogant and incompetent son-in-law as commander in chief of the national medical supply chain? Again Trump’s fault. For three years, Trump has blabbered and faked and browbeat his way through an office for which he is utterly inadequate. But sooner or later, every president must face a ultimate test, a test that cannot be shirked by blather and bluff and bullying. That test has overwhelmed Trump. Trump failed. He is failing. He will continue to fail. And Americans are paying for his failures. We now know the coronavirus emerged in China in October, in fairness Trump knew in late December. The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak on January 3. The first confirmed case in the United States was first diagnosed in mid-January, but after new reports we know know that there were much earlier cases in China--China failed for at least 3 weeks to notify the world while its own people were filling up the hospitals and morgues. The first person known to have succumbed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the United States died on February 29. The 100th died on March 17. By March 20, New York City alone had confirmed 5,600 cases. Not until March 21—the day the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services placed its first large-scale order for N95 masks—did the White House begin marshaling a national supply chain to meet the threat in earnest. Jared Kushner said on April 3, implicitly acknowledging the waste of weeks between January 3 and March 21. The Trump administration failed again. Weeks went by without testing because there were no test kits, there was no tracing because there ere no tests, hose were the weeks when isolation did not happen, because the president and his administration insisted that the virus was under control. Those were the weeks when supplies were not ordered, because nobody in the White House was home to order them. Those lost weeks placed the United States on the path to the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in the developed world: one-fourth of all confirmed cases anywhere on Earth. Many lost weeks put the United State and the world on the track to an economic collapse steeper than any in recent memory. Statisticians cannot count fast enough to keep pace with the accelerating economic depression unemployment was predicted to be at 20% and leveling out at 14%. It will be months and years before we recover, many small business’ will never recover . This country—cushioned by oceans from the epicenter of the global outbreak, in East Asia; blessed with the most advanced medical technology on Earth; endowed with agencies and personnel devoted to responding to pandemics—could have and should have been less impacted less than nations nearer to China. Instead, the United States will suffer more than any fellow country. All the deaths and suffering could have been avoided, anyone else that could have been president would have reacted faster and mobilized companies to make the needed equipment. Anyone else would not have reduced the CDC. Anyone else would not have been living in a make believe world. Anyone else would have listened to their National Security advisors and reports, and all other intel. Anyone but Trump. Trump continually said the virus would magically disappear when warm =weather came, then he said the virus was under control. Then he said oh well people will die, that happens, then he said the economy is more important than peoples lives. Trump blames his impeachment trial for his lack of action against the virus. He failed to get supplies etc to the hospitals. Then Trump blamed the possible war with Iran which he started as a distraction that’s why he was slow to act. Then he thought that the virus was going to stay in China, Trump continued to think of the coronavirus as something outside to the United States. He tweeted on January 22: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” Then later he attacked China for not telling the truth. And often mixing up his message like usual, so bad no one knew what he was saying as it differed from hour to hour. Trump fired anyone who contradicted or questioned his comments that the virus was nothing, doctors, Commanders of naval vessels where there was outbreaks, even the Surgeon General was afraid to speak out on the virus. Because Trump is like a little kid who gets even and gives paybacks if he feels anyone disagrees with him. Throughout the crisis, the top priority of the president, and of everyone who works for the president, has been the protection of his ego. Americans have become sadly used to Trump’s windy self-praise and his unquenchable craving for flattery. During the pandemic, this psychological irregularity has metamorphosed into a deadly strategic weakness for the United States. Trump tried to play the virus off like it was like the flu--- last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. We have lost 110,000 people in less than three months, how many will it be in a year? the virus is nothing like the flu. Trump has mouthed the slogan “America first,” but he has never acted on it. It has always been “Trump first.” His business first. His excuses first, his pathetic egotism, first. Responsibility falls upon Trump, whether he takes it or not. No matter how much he deflects and insults and snivels and whines, this American catastrophe is on his hands and on his head. The American people have survived catastrophes for hundreds of years, because they have believed in their president their country , and the belief that the president would put the people first, but with Trump he comes first, the country and its people come last and they never have been a concern for Trump. Trump is a worthless piece of crap and a stain on America and he will go down in history as a liar, a cheat, a Nazi and a threat to the democracy of the greatest country in the world. Come November, we will have a chance to save the union and we will-- when we elect a new president that cares about the American people and that man will be Joe Biden. Biden will save the Republic.
Tammy
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