holmes435 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:16 am
JoeMauer89 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:08 pmRed,
Not anger, more frustration because, the majority on this thread are so damn ingrained in their ways/beliefs that nothing will change their mind. That's what bothers me. Nobody has a damn clue if any other "administration" would have handled it any better, so like I said it's a waste of time and energy discussing that. It didn't happen on any other administration's watch other than the one that is currently in charge. Actual medical and scientific knowledge are ever changing, I think we have done a damn good job of adapting with it. Again, go with what you see on the ground rather than what is reported. Nearly ALL of the media outlets do not begin to even give clear context or a bigger picture in anything they report on this virus. That is a fact, politics gets in the way at every turn. It's truly sad, because the world is going to continue to spinning long after this is through.
JoeMauer89!
I'm sure it feels very frustrating to you. It's frustrating to me too.
While we cannot compare the response to this particular disease to many administrations in our history, we can compare it to how governments across the world have handled it. We are one of the worst as far as total cases, total deaths, cases per capita and deaths per capita.
We're supposed to be the best, to be exceptional, yet the people in charge are presiding over the unnecessary deaths of so many Americans. The "administration" in charge is doing a very poor job, regardless of party affiliation or ideology.
This sums up my frustration well.
While the comparisons to other traumatic, loss of life events in the history of the USA may seem beyond the point, they are indeed to provide context to the magnitude of what is happening.
Just as we look back at the horrors of trench warfare in WWI and critique the amazingly awful tactics of charging 100 yards into machine gunfire only to gain a new trench, we are critiquing in real-time the tragically awful tactics of the leaders during this particular brutally difficult challenge.
These decisions are not inevitable, and we have ample evidence that our current political leadership has been abysmal in contrast with that of other leaders and tactics around the world. We should be better, not worse.
And too many of our fellow citizens have not followed the behaviors Joe has described as appropriate, but rather have let their 'beliefs' informed by that awful leadership drive them to behaviors that have endangered and encumbered all the rest of us. Yes, those "beliefs" are wrong and they are dangerously so.
Fortunately, we do have an opportunity to change out this leadership.