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In an interview today, it’s pretty clear that Trump is quasi-blaming everyone else. Look at this word salad:

"I don't agree with the statement that if everybody wears a mask everything disappears," Trump said. "Dr. Fauci said don't wear a mask, our Surgeon General, terrific guy, said don't wear a mask. Everybody was saying don't wear a mask. All of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask, and as you know, masks cause problems too, with that being said, I'm a believer in masks. I think masks are good."
 
Every day is a matter of getting through your shift. Morale is abysmal. We still haven't been supplied with enough PPE which is a major point of anxiety for everyone.

Im thinking of starting a diary, tracking it back to the start of this. Friends of mine are sick or have now been put in contact isolation from their families. i've been living in isolation more or less from mine since march, i've seen my parents 3 times since I moved out and before COVID I was their carer.
 
Avery said:
In an interview today, it’s pretty clear that Trump is quasi-blaming everyone else. Look at this word salad:

"I don't agree with the statement that if everybody wears a mask everything disappears," Trump said. "Dr. Fauci said don't wear a mask, our Surgeon General, terrific guy, said don't wear a mask. Everybody was saying don't wear a mask. All of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask, and as you know, masks cause problems too, with that being said, I'm a believer in masks. I think masks are good."
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This is disingenuous from Trump, as Fauci only said that because of the shortage of personal protective equipment at the time.
 
The Thriller said:
Like April! Next April! Or the April after that?! LOL.
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It could be April, it could be June, I love June, I got married in June, beautiful month, but I’ll tell you this, and I’ll only say it once, but one month, and it could be June, could be Monday, but it will disappear and go away and everything will be spectacular. It’s a terrible thing but it will be beautiful when it goes away and everything will be back overnight and we will be itching to go and in full swing of the greatest rebound in the world history of historical worlds.
 
Avery said:
It could be April, it could be June, I love June, I got married in June, beautiful month, but I’ll tell you this, and I’ll only say it once, but one month, and it could be June, could be Monday, but it will disappear and go away and everything will be spectacular. It’s a terrible thing but it will be beautiful when it goes away and everything will be back overnight and we will be itching to go and in full swing of the greatest rebound in the world history of historical worlds.
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Haha well done
 
Apologies if this has been posted before. I went back a number of pages and couldn’t find anything. It’s a tragic and heartbreaking column by Michelle Goldberg in the NY Times from last week and well worth quoting at length:

"If you’re lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the coronavirus nightmare has been mostly over since June. After more than two weeks with no new cases, the government lifted almost all restrictions that month. The borders are still shut, but inside the country, normal life returned."

"It’s coming back elsewhere too. Taiwan, where most days this month no new cases have been reported, just held the Taipei Film Festival, and a recent baseball game drew 10,000 spectators. Italy was once the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak and remains in a state of emergency, but with just a few hundred new cases a day in the whole country, bars are open and tourists have started returning, though of course Americans remain banned. According to The New York Times’s figures, there were 321 new cases in all of Canada last Friday."

"And America? We had 68,241. As of last week, the worst per capita outbreak on the planet was in Arizona, followed by Florida. The world is closed to us; American passports were once coveted, but now only a few dozen nations will let us in. Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown, told me he doesn’t expect American life to feel truly normal before summer 2022. Two years of our lives, stolen by Donald Trump.”

"Gostin was part of the international panel that put together the Global Health Security Index, a report, released last year, that evaluated the pandemic readiness of every nation on earth. No country, they found, was as prepared as the United States. But the coronavirus, he said, has shown us that “health system capacity alone is almost useless unless you have a government that can unleash that capacity promptly and consistently.”

The column in its entirety can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/...vCaWvJFKB98vOzrGkCXyyiBrFC1jT45nBdRPpJRV-N7Y0
 
Avery said:
In an interview today, it’s pretty clear that Trump is quasi-blaming everyone else. Look at this word salad:

"I don't agree with the statement that if everybody wears a mask everything disappears," Trump said. "Dr. Fauci said don't wear a mask, our Surgeon General, terrific guy, said don't wear a mask. Everybody was saying don't wear a mask. All of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask, and as you know, masks cause problems too, with that being said, I'm a believer in masks. I think masks are good."
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Trump’s whole worldview is closed to the idea that we’ve learned something about this NOVEL virus since March.
 
Jonah said:
Apologies if this has been posted before. I went back a number of pages and couldn’t find anything. It’s a tragic and heartbreaking column by Michelle Goldberg in the NY Times from last week and well worth quoting at length:

"If you’re lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the coronavirus nightmare has been mostly over since June. After more than two weeks with no new cases, the government lifted almost all restrictions that month. The borders are still shut, but inside the country, normal life returned."

"It’s coming back elsewhere too. Taiwan, where most days this month no new cases have been reported, just held the Taipei Film Festival, and a recent baseball game drew 10,000 spectators. Italy was once the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak and remains in a state of emergency, but with just a few hundred new cases a day in the whole country, bars are open and tourists have started returning, though of course Americans remain banned. According to The New York Times’s figures, there were 321 new cases in all of Canada last Friday."

"And America? We had 68,241. As of last week, the worst per capita outbreak on the planet was in Arizona, followed by Florida. The world is closed to us; American passports were once coveted, but now only a few dozen nations will let us in. Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown, told me he doesn’t expect American life to feel truly normal before summer 2022. Two years of our lives, stolen by Donald Trump.”

"Gostin was part of the international panel that put together the Global Health Security Index, a report, released last year, that evaluated the pandemic readiness of every nation on earth. No country, they found, was as prepared as the United States. But the coronavirus, he said, has shown us that “health system capacity alone is almost useless unless you have a government that can unleash that capacity promptly and consistently.”

The column in its entirety can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/...vCaWvJFKB98vOzrGkCXyyiBrFC1jT45nBdRPpJRV-N7Y0
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interesting. Thanks for writing this!
 
Jonah said:
Apologies if this has been posted before. I went back a number of pages and couldn’t find anything. It’s a tragic and heartbreaking column by Michelle Goldberg in the NY Times from last week and well worth quoting at length:

"If you’re lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the coronavirus nightmare has been mostly over since June. After more than two weeks with no new cases, the government lifted almost all restrictions that month. The borders are still shut, but inside the country, normal life returned."

"It’s coming back elsewhere too. Taiwan, where most days this month no new cases have been reported, just held the Taipei Film Festival, and a recent baseball game drew 10,000 spectators. Italy was once the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak and remains in a state of emergency, but with just a few hundred new cases a day in the whole country, bars are open and tourists have started returning, though of course Americans remain banned. According to The New York Times’s figures, there were 321 new cases in all of Canada last Friday."

"And America? We had 68,241. As of last week, the worst per capita outbreak on the planet was in Arizona, followed by Florida. The world is closed to us; American passports were once coveted, but now only a few dozen nations will let us in. Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown, told me he doesn’t expect American life to feel truly normal before summer 2022. Two years of our lives, stolen by Donald Trump.”

"Gostin was part of the international panel that put together the Global Health Security Index, a report, released last year, that evaluated the pandemic readiness of every nation on earth. No country, they found, was as prepared as the United States. But the coronavirus, he said, has shown us that “health system capacity alone is almost useless unless you have a government that can unleash that capacity promptly and consistently.”

The column in its entirety can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/...vCaWvJFKB98vOzrGkCXyyiBrFC1jT45nBdRPpJRV-N7Y0
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Yeah, the whole world is watching, and the whole world is slack jawed at how our nation has responded to this crisis:

 
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