Generational Dynamics World View

[pbrower2a]

(08-03-2021, 02:31 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 03-Aug-2021 World View: Trump vs Covid

(08-03-2021, 01:45 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   Nobody could have reasonably expected how badly the USA could have
>   mangled a response to COVID-19. You. Xenakis, know what I think of
>   Donald Trump, but his handling of COVID-19 is criminal, homicidal
>   negligence on a scale rare in world history. Yes, I believe that
>   former President Trump has committed indictable offenses involving
>   COVID-19 alone.

I really don't have a clue what you're talking about.  This appears to
be the opposite of the truth, so I assume it's just more of your
trollery.

Let me parse it.

1. Respiratory infections seem to be a memory of the past in advanced-industrial societies, as with the Spanish influenza of slightly more than a century ago. We think in our arrogant complacency that respiratory infections can kill only people with compromised immune systems -- like people with AIDS, cancer, congestive heart failure, dementia, and organ failure. COVID-19 contradicts that. 

2. You know that I thoroughly despise Donald Trump as a model of a pathological leader, an extreme narcissist bordering on sociopathy, a man caring little except about himself and his "extensions". Ideally people like that either change their ways or get relegated to roles that minimize their potential damage. His business practices are a disgrace. He has demonstrated a low "emotional quotient" by mocking someone with a handicap. I learned while I was still in single digits that such is completely unthinkable. The blind and crippled that I knew as a child were often WWII vets. So Jack lost a foot from frostbite at Bastogne, and Martin went blind as a Japanese shell exploded right in front of him and wrecked his eyes. 

Maybe some of my age-mates kept telling jokes about handicaps past age ten or so, but I was not laughing at them. I have such serious handicaps that I qualify for disability. You may think that it is for intellectual inadequacy if you wish -- but it is for arms that have never been able to build muscle mass adequate for industrial work, poor hand-eye coordination, a bad back, and having my expressions often come out inappropriately. I can seem like a liar even if I am telling the truth. If I were to have anything on the DMS-V it would be Asperger's syndrome and not malignant narcissism, even if malignant narcissists can do well economically while ruining others' lives, credit scores, and opportunities. 

3. In military life, the term for failing to meet the standards expected of a soldier by shirking responsibility is "dereliction of duty". Maybe that does not have quite an equivalent in civilian life, but casting blame instead of offering a solution is bad.    

Quote:Trump caught on right away that China was intentionally spreading the
virus around the world

Unproven!

Quote:the world while protecting China,

China is a highly-regimented country that can do that. So is South Korea, although not on politics. South Korea did very well.

Russia and Iran are of course highly-dictatorial societies, but apparently not so well disciplined. ThaT makes all the difference in the world. 

Quote:so he shut down travel
from China and Europe.  Trump claims that by doing this he saved
hundreds of thousands of lives, and that's credible to me.

 
Dixit Donald Trump. Donald Trump's word is so worthless that one can believe him only in the rare instance in which what he says  has independent verification.  

Quote:The Chinese were furious.  The Democrats were furious.  Nancy Pelosi was
dancing in the streets in Chinatown, calling Trump xenophobic and
hateful and racist and White Supremacist.  But like so many things,
Trump turned out to be right about this, and the Democrats were dead
wrong.

Donald Trump is a xenophobic, hateful racist. He is also a religious bigot.

Here, by the way, is Nancy Pelosi's district:



It includes San Francisco's Chinatown. In showing solidarity with Chinese-Americans, a large component of her district she did something that one expects of any Representative. That's constituent service. Those who fail at that don't get re-elected. Don't confuse Chinese-Americans with the government of the People's Republic of China.   

Quote:And of course Operation Warp Speed produced three vaccines in nine
months, a medical miracle, where the Democrats were ridiculing and
mocking him, saying there wouldn't be vaccines for years.  Once again,
Trump was right and the Democrats were dead wrong.

Heavily under the prodding of Democrats, so give some credit where it is due. Remember also that the pharmaceutical industry developed the vaccine.