President and First Lady test POSITIVE!

[Dill]

(10-02-2020, 11:15 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: Do you know if he was also getting different info at the same time?  No, you don't.  My point is not to defend Trump, but look at this reasonably.  You have no idea what info was being provided to him before and after the interview.  There was lots of different info in the news at that time.  One day we needed masks the next day we didn't.  Shutdown, don't shutdown.  Will go away like the flu, will not go away like the flu.  No one knew for sure.  I just believe there is more context than a phone call that we will never know about.  I would say the same no matter who is Prez.

Mickey, the above isn't really a good representation of Trump's information environment.  

From the beginning he has had the best medical advice in the world. IN THE WORLD. The quickest access to new information. Doctors who could explain scientific method, the cautious process of verifying virus transmission, of developing and then distributing vaccine. All so he could make the best possible decisions on our behalf.

It's only we who are limited to "lots of different info in the news."

He was urged caution. He scorned that advice. He pulled us out of WHO. Blamed China after praising China. Began months of mixed messaging on masks and social distancing. "Go away like the flu" was all Trump. Promised a vaccine by the end of the year, maybe before the election. linked his pandemic response to the stock market and his re-election.

He is the primary reason why there was "lots of different info in the news at the time." No consistent leadership; "up to the states." "slow down the testing." Rallies with thousands of unmasked. He spread false information he heard on Fox. He pulled a crackpot Fox doctor onto his WH advisory team. 

We are looking at Trump CHOICES here, Mickey, BAD CHOICES, not a consequence of confusing information. Choices made by someone with bad judgment, who has no basic understanding of how science works, who placed Fox on par with an experienced professional medical team, and who is consequently unfit to lead a nation at any time, let alone during a pandemic, but whom a segment of voters placed in charge our CDC, our doctors, our national pandemic response.