I really enjoy hearing from people who live outside the USA. There are liberals and conservatives everywhere. But, their take on our approach is always refreshing. Thanks pilut2 for your insights.
I don't care which flavor kool-aid you drink. Red, blue or purple. +/- a month ago, our president exclaimed we only had "15 cases that week and that the next week we would likely be at zero." We now stand at somewhere north of 1,000 dead. Last week the president extols hydroxy-chorluquine as a cure. Rips a reporter in the room that he should be ashamed of the question he is trying to ask as fear mongering. A Darwin awards candidate and his wife ingest some aquarium cleaner that has it as an ingredient and he dies and she is in critical condition.
People in authority over us have a responsibility to be honest and forth rite with all information presented. How many times has the president made a statement to then be corrected by Dr Fauci in the last week? It is staggering how cavalier he is with his hyperbolic ramblings. "Anybody who wants to get tested, can get tested." This is clearly not the case from personal experience.
The president can have his conspiracy theories about the deep state. Bill and Hill's child porn ring in a PA pizza restaurant basement, the last president was born in Kenya, he won the majority vote, etc. I can't decide whether he believes what he says or not. Which makes me ask the question. Which would be worse? Is he delusional or is he deliberately pedaling falsehoods? Both scenarios are problematic.
All I know is the country deserves/requires better at this point. If we get this wrong, history will not be kind. Pray we don't lose our humanity towards each other as we hoard toilet paper.
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Originally Posted by pilut2
I am a Canadian. Although I did not vote for Prime Minister Trudeau I feel that he is handling the Covid-19 in an informed and measured manner. Time will tell if our response was timely and drastic enough. Trudeau addresses the nation every morning with a calming, non political, truthful and articulate update to the crisis. By contrast, Trump's daily ramblings are full of untruths and complaints about how poorly he is being treated, attacks on the press and how the previous administration left him in this mess. Trump rarely completes a sentence and rambles with the vocabulary of preschooler. I am at a complete loss as to how anyone can have any confidence in him as a leader. Canadian news outlets report the same story with very little if any political bias- not true in the US where two different networks can report the same event in a completely different way. I am glad that I live in Canada where we pay higher taxes, have free healthcare and don't need guns.
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