Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Dan Cross
Date : Fri Apr 03 2020 07:17 am

On 01 Apr 2020 at 12:48p, Aaron Thomas pondered and said...
 
 AT>  DC> The cognitive dissonance is so strong that they just
 AT>  DC> cannot see how incompetent he is.  What happened to
 AT> 
 AT> Incompetent at what? Being an epidemic expert?

Umm...more like incompetent at everything he tries.

 AT> How would liberals react if Trump completely closed down the country,
 AT> took power away from governors, and mandated that all citizens remain on
 AT> their own property until a solution to the virus could be found? Will
 AT> that make liberals happy, or will they complain that "the president is
 AT> over-reacting?"

IF it were done in accordance to a data-driven
policy recommendation backed by actual experts, I
imagine most would accept it as the inevitable
response to an out-of-control pandemic that was
allowed to gain a foothold in the first place
because it wasn't taken seriously by government.

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