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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"A cult of personality is no match for a pandemic." Michelle Goldberg (NYTimes)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opinion/sunday/trump-coronavirus.html?auth=link-dismiss-google1tap<snip>
In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that a second wave of coronavirus infections this coming winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through, because it will coincide with flu season. He also called the protests against stay-at-home orders not helpful.
Donald Trump was apparently not pleased, tweeting that Redfield was totally misquoted by Fake News @CNN. On Wednesday evening, after another rant about fake news, Trump brought Redfield onstage at his daily press briefing, where Redfield had the unenviable task of trying to explain his remarks, which he acknowledged were quoted accurately, without contradicting the president. The fall and winter might be more difficult and potentially more complicated due to the confluence of coronavirus and influenza, Redfield said, but that didnt mean the second wave would be worse.
Trump, meanwhile, spoke of the crisis in the past tense, as something America is now emerging from, suggesting that all the country will face in the future is some embers of corona. The day before, the country had recorded around 2,200 deaths, making it one of the deadliest days of the pandemic in the United States.
Over the last three and a half years, Americans have had to accustom themselves to a relentless, numbing barrage of lies from the federal government. In one sector after another, weve seen experts systemically purged and replaced with toadying apparatchiks. The few professionals whove kept their jobs have often had to engage in degrading acts of public obeisance more common to autocracies. Public policy has zigzagged according to presidential whim. Empirical reality has been subsumed to Trumps cult of personality.
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"A cult of personality is no match for a pandemic." Michelle Goldberg (NYTimes) (Original Post)
kentuck
Apr 2020
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. K&r
BComplex
(8,067 posts)3. Michelle Goldberg is one of my favorite people in the press.
She's also a brilliant writer.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)4. Priceless AND brilliant that Michelle Goldberg is! Whole piece is a very good read. n/t