Trump's Achilles Heel and He Doesn't Even Recognize It....

Trump and some ultra conservatives in the GOP have decided that the economy, jobs, and of course profits, are much too important to continue the actions ALL medical and science professionals are advising the nation to follow in combatting the spread of Covid-19.  The efforts to flatten the curve and significantly mitigate community spread depends on following the advice of those who know what they're talking about. They are advising Easter is too soon and will very likely result in the virus sickening and killing more people. There is a rapidly approaching shortage of ventilators,  beds, and other critical supplies as well. The GOP as usual is not thinking with a clear and rational head. Americans will die unnecessarily as a result if Trump follows through with his apparent plans.

For anyone who has been paying attention (those with a clear and rational mind) it has become increasingly evident that Trump has been and remains completely out of his element during this developing crisis. His leaning towards having everyone back to work and the economy roaring by Easter  is more evidence that your president really does not care about the people he has a responsibility to protect. Why many Governors understand there responsibility at the state level and the president doesn't should be enough to make a VERY BIG change come November 2020.

With President Trump saying he wants “the country opened” by Easter to salvage the U.S. economy, a fierce debate is now raging among policymakers over the necessity of shutting down vast swaths of American society to combat the novel coronavirus.

Health experts point to overwhelming evidence from around the world that closing businesses and schools and minimizing social contact are crucial to avoid exponentially mounting infections. Ending the shutdown now in America would be disastrous, many say, because the country has barely given those restrictions time to work, and because U.S. leaders have not pursued alternative strategies used in other countries to avert the potential deaths of hundreds of thousands.

But in recent days an increasing number of political conservatives have argued that the economic cost is too high. At a town hall broadcast Tuesday, Trump suggested dire consequences if at least some economic sectors aren’t restored.

“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression,” Trump said. “… You’re going to have all sorts of things happen, you’re going to have instability. You can’t just come in and say let’s close up the United States of America, the biggest, the most successful country in the world by far."

At the event, Trump amplified a message that has been bubbling among conservative pundits in recent days. Speaking of the economy, he said, “The faster we go back, the better it’s going to be.”

The stance has many worried, including some in the president’s own party. “There will be no normally functioning economy if our hospitals are overwhelmed and thousands of Americans of all ages, including our doctors and nurses, lay dying because we have failed to do what’s necessary to stop the virus,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the House’s highest-ranking Republican woman, wrote in a Tuesday tweet.

But the greatest alarm has come from scientists, epidemiologists and health experts who have spent the past three months studying the new coronavirus and have witnessed the destructive, contagious swath it has cut through other countries.

“To be a week into these restrictions and already be talking about abandoning them is irresponsible and dangerous,” said Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Removing restrictions now would allow the virus, he said, to “spread widely, rapidly, terribly, and could kill potentially millions in the year ahead with huge social and economic impact.”

While not mentioning the president by name, Bill Gates — who co-founded Microsoft and now leads a global health foundation — rebuked Trump’s approach in a Tuesday interview with TED: “There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people: ‘Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts.’”

And there you have it folks. Your president is more concerned about the numbers, corporations, and the bottom line (remember his and his family's  businesses are making profit off his being in the White House) than he is about your health and welfare.

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