[oregontim]

White House seeks to discredit Fauci amid coronavirus surge



https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/12/white-ho...urges.html

So disheartening. It goes on and on. Cause and effect. So the infestation we call the white house is attacking again.

I'm a baby boomer. We grew up in what we believed to be the best country in the world by several measurements. The space race, the priority on education and competitiveness. Now we live in a country that's been actively anti-intellectual and dumbing ourselves down, on purpose, for several decades. So we have a complete lack of leadership, horrible tribal divisions, and orders of magnitude more of this pandemic than any other nation.



I agree with what OutsiderFan posted yesterday on a different thread:

Yes, I get we are different culturally than Germany, but even given that, if the U.S. had a national plan and all elected governments took the virus seriously from the beginning, I fully believe our citizens would have largely bought in and followed directions. We’d have our epidemic under control too. Maybe the scale of our COVID-19 Epidemic and the damage it causes becomes for the U.S. what WWII was for Germany in terms of never wanting to experience such a catastrophe again, and changing to make sure we don’t.

New cases, one day last week:

Norway, 10

Denmark, 11

Sweden, 57

Germany, 298

United States, 55,442



The first four combined have population about the same as US.

[oregontim]

White House seeks to discredit Fauci amid coronavirus surge



https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/12/white-ho...urges.html

So disheartening. It goes on and on. Cause and effect. So the infestation we call the white house is attacking again.

I'm a baby boomer. We grew up in what we believed to be the best country in the world by several measurements. The space race, the priority on education and competitiveness. Now we live in a country that's been actively anti-intellectual and dumbing ourselves down, on purpose, for several decades. So we have a complete lack of leadership, horrible tribal divisions, and orders of magnitude more of this pandemic than any other nation.



I agree with what OutsiderFan posted yesterday on a different thread:

Yes, I get we are different culturally than Germany, but even given that, if the U.S. had a national plan and all elected governments took the virus seriously from the beginning, I fully believe our citizens would have largely bought in and followed directions. We’d have our epidemic under control too. Maybe the scale of our COVID-19 Epidemic and the damage it causes becomes for the U.S. what WWII was for Germany in terms of never wanting to experience such a catastrophe again, and changing to make sure we don’t.

New cases, one day last week:

Norway, 10

Denmark, 11

Sweden, 57

Germany, 298

United States, 55,442



The first four combined have population about the same as US.