Thursday June 18, 2020
136 Days until the election on November 3rd
216 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Okay we have two models of how to treat the pandemic. We can do what Italy, China, Spain, and South Korea did or we can do what the governors in Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma and seven other states have done. Let’s not listen to the rhetoric, let’s look at the results. In the countries I mentioned after a rapid rise the number of cases came down, way down. In the states I mentioned the number of cases rose and continue to rise with no end in sight.
Put on your thinking caps and ask yourself which model would you think would make sense to follow? If you said what the countries did you’d be right. So what has the Trump administration done? Well, nothing – really, and they’ve encouraged the states to keep doing what they are doing. What exactly is that? Well, mainly telling people to get out there, and to hide the data from the public. If this seems like a recipe for disaster let the data speak for itself.
How did we get to this point?
That’s a question Fiona Hill has been asking as well. She has been looking at Britain, Russia, and the U.S. And asking when it comes to the corona virus how did they end up in the same place? Hill has an especially good eye for this type of analysis having grown up in Northern England, educated there and in the U.S. and her specialty is Russia and Putin.
Her conclusion is that all three are populist politicians and populism lends itself to simple slogans and fixes to complicated problems.
Here’s the article and thanks to my friend Frank for showing this to me.
‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism
She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey from County Durham to Washington
Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/APjUjngoXRqO7HtgPIo7Ntw
136 Days until the election on November 3rd
216 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Big Bird
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