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    -=> On 08-07-20  09:30,  Aaron Thomas <=-   
    -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: It is what it is <=-   
      
    DS> recent and current statements have caused many Republican states to   
    DS> ignore the valid scientific advice to their peril.   
      
    AT> States have been in control this whole time. They do whatever they   
    AT> want. But  when their plans go awry, they blame Trump. What if Trump   
    AT> was a Democrat? Then nobody would blame him for anything?   
      
   In this case it does not matter whether Trump is a Democrat (he once   
   was) or a Republican -- what matters is his complete inadequacy at   
   providing any leadership for dealing with this pandemic.  What direction   
   he did provide was to either ignore the virus or to be totally wrong in   
   his statements.  The tragedy is that many governors followed his   
   ignorance instead of paying attention to science.  If Trump had issued   
   the proper guidance from the beginning, it is likely that 100,000 deaths   
   might have been avoided.  We currently are at more than 160,000 deaths.   
   early on, the scientists showed a chart that predicted about 60,000   
   deaths if the appropriate mitigation measures were taken.  Those   
   measures were not only ignored by Trump, he openly spoke against them   
   and publically encouraged ignoring them.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
                     fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net   
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