Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[Dill]

(08-01-2020, 01:14 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Trump letting the governors respond individually to a national crisis would be like Bush allowing all the governors to individually respond to the 9/11 attacks.

It’s just magnificently stupid.

Now Now, if we are using war analogies then we need to remember our history.

When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, did FDR call for a national strategy in response to Axis aggression??

No, he did not. He let Hawaii and California take care of the Pacific problem with their own national guard while the Federal Gov. stockpiled its own tanks and planes.  Same on the East coast. States bid against each other for ammunition and jeeps.

And Americans came through just fine, with states with Republican governors suffering fewer losses at D Day and Okinawa than states with Democratic governors--until New Mexico sent the atomic bombs to Japan and the war was over.

So once again we have a war time president managing US governors to ward off an attack on the nation--this time from China and the Democrats.  And once again we are winning, so far with fewer dead than WWII or the Civil WAr. Still some "embers" glowing here and there, but schools will open in the fall.

(08-03-2020, 12:15 AM)jason Wrote: It seems to me there are 50 different responses to the pandemic in the United States.

Yes, that's the strength of America. Each state can experiment with its own pandemic response. One state shuts down and enforces social distancing and the state next door opens up and leaves masks a "personal choice." Equipment and tests go on the free market to keep prices down as states bid against each other for essential supplies. So many options for us so we can see which works best.