Contrary to the impression one forms from immersion in the news of the day over the past four years, we are quite certain President Donald Trump is not accorded sufficient credit where he is generally found most wanting, particularly by his media critics: on matters of reason and judgment.
That same day, Joe Biden admonished Trump for his xenophobia and other alleged sins: "We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science-not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency." When Trump subsequently referred to "The Chinese virus," Biden further criticized Trump for "Xenophobic fear-mongering." In a March 27 fact check, PolitiFact counseled that "Experts say" Trump's reference to "The Chinese virus" could "Foster discrimination toward people of Chinese or Asian origin."
Though derided for his disinclination to follow the advice of experts, Trump has relied on the medical experts advising him on the crisis to defer the easing of current social distancing restrictions he had argued for just days before.
Addressing Trump's decision to extend the current guidelines, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN that he and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx "Made it very clear to him that if we pull back on what we were doing and didn't extend , there would be more avoidable suffering and avoidable death. So it was a pretty clear decision on his part."
Fauci put it this way: "We showed him the data, he looked at the data, and he got it right away," Fauci said.
If we had to guess Trump's way forward, we think that Trump will follow the path charted by Scott Gottlieb and his colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute.
As Trump has observed-reasonably-the cure threatens to be worse than the disease.
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/trumps-unheralded-reason/
That same day, Joe Biden admonished Trump for his xenophobia and other alleged sins: "We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science-not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency." When Trump subsequently referred to "The Chinese virus," Biden further criticized Trump for "Xenophobic fear-mongering." In a March 27 fact check, PolitiFact counseled that "Experts say" Trump's reference to "The Chinese virus" could "Foster discrimination toward people of Chinese or Asian origin."
Though derided for his disinclination to follow the advice of experts, Trump has relied on the medical experts advising him on the crisis to defer the easing of current social distancing restrictions he had argued for just days before.
Addressing Trump's decision to extend the current guidelines, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN that he and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx "Made it very clear to him that if we pull back on what we were doing and didn't extend , there would be more avoidable suffering and avoidable death. So it was a pretty clear decision on his part."
Fauci put it this way: "We showed him the data, he looked at the data, and he got it right away," Fauci said.
If we had to guess Trump's way forward, we think that Trump will follow the path charted by Scott Gottlieb and his colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute.
As Trump has observed-reasonably-the cure threatens to be worse than the disease.
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/trumps-unheralded-reason/
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