04-29-2020, 10:21 PM
(04-29-2020, 10:01 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-29-2020, 05:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: We have now surpassed the death toll of American military losses in the Vietnam war. Next stop? American involvement in World War I. Many of the military deaths in WWI were from influenza.
All in about two months, and all under one President who certainly botched the response so badly that state governments have taken the lead in response.
I wonder what you'd be saying about Clinton these days had she won the election and stuck with the status quo and continued to do nothing about the sluggish economy.
If she had behaved as Trump did toward the Coronavirus she would deserve the same opprobrium. I doubt that she would have. As it is, America got hit later -- but much harder. Americans have chosen to take an economic blow and forgo many activities that they cherish so that they not get COVID-19. So life goes when most people see themselves in a shared danger.
Further need I say nothing more.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.