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THREAD @ProjectLincoln:
@realDonaldTrump wants to convince us 130k Americans dead in 4 months is normal & that his failure is acceptable. This president was too incompetent to combat the virus, so he decided to hide the data that revealed just how extensive his ineptitude goes.
It took 4 months & a lawsuit to force the release of this data b/c the Trump admin has either been too incompetent to collect the data or knew that it would reveal what we’ve all known - that Trump has run the worst pandemic response of any industrialized country in the world.
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Covid has revealed long-existing racial, economic, & health disparities - & this president is running for re-election in command of the LARGEST COLLAPSE of public health in the history of the US while Latino & Black communities disprop get sick & die to keep the economy running.
Thread by @madrid_mike: THREAD @ProjectLincoln: @realDonaldTrump wants to convince us 130k Americans dead in 4 months is normal & that his failure is acceptable…
@realDonaldTrump wants to convince us 130k Americans dead in 4 months is normal & that his failure is acceptable. This president was too incompetent to combat the virus, so he decided to hide the data that revealed just how extensive his ineptitude goes.
It took 4 months & a lawsuit to force the release of this data b/c the Trump admin has either been too incompetent to collect the data or knew that it would reveal what we’ve all known - that Trump has run the worst pandemic response of any industrialized country in the world.
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Covid has revealed long-existing racial, economic, & health disparities - & this president is running for re-election in command of the LARGEST COLLAPSE of public health in the history of the US while Latino & Black communities disprop get sick & die to keep the economy running.
Thread by @madrid_mike: THREAD @ProjectLincoln: @realDonaldTrump wants to convince us 130k Americans dead in 4 months is normal & that his failure is acceptable…
For many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has become white noise—old news that has faded into the background of their lives. But the crisis is far from over. Arizona is one of the pandemic’s new hot spots, with 24,000 confirmed cases over the past week and rising hospitalizations and deaths. Popescu saw the surge coming, “but to actually see it play out is heartbreaking,” she said. “It didn’t have to be this way.”
Popescu is one of many public-health experts who have been preparing for and battling the pandemic since the start of the year. They’re not treating sick people, as doctors or nurses might be, but are instead advising policy makers, monitoring the pandemic’s movements, modeling its likely trajectory, and ensuring that hospitals are ready.
By now they are used to sharing their knowledge with journalists, but they’re less accustomed to talking about themselves. Many of them told me that they feel duty-bound and grateful to be helping their country at a time when so many others are ill or unemployed. But they’re also very tired, and dispirited by America’s continued inability to control a virus that many other nations have brought to heel. As the pandemic once again intensifies, so too does their frustration and fatigue.
America isn’t just facing a shortfall of testing kits, masks, or health-care workers. It is also looking at a drought of expertise, as the very people whose skills are sorely needed to handle the pandemic are on the verge of burning out.
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The people doing this work have had to recalibrate their lives. From March to May, Colin Carlson, a research professor at Georgetown University who specializes in infectious diseases, spent most of his time traversing the short gap between his bed and his desk. He worked relentlessly and knocked back coffee, even though it exacerbates his severe anxiety: The cost was worth it, he felt, when the United States still seemed to have a chance of controlling COVID-19.
The U.S. frittered away that chance. Through social distancing, the American public bought the country valuable time at substantial personal cost. The Trump administration should have used that time to roll out a coordinated plan to ramp up America’s ability to test and trace infected people. It didn’t. Instead, to the immense frustration of public-health advisers, leaders rushed to reopen while most states were still woefully unprepared.
And his base eats up his bullshit with a spoon.
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