What Grade Would You Give Americans in Handling the COVID-19 Crisis?

Canuckistan has done pretty well with this too.

 

And add in the behavior of the deplorables. Brings it down to an F.

 

It's a group project and thanks to about half the team not doing their assignments, we get an F.

 

This is an excellent thought by you, and certainly a possibility on Trump's part. And I would give it even more credence if I really believed that Trump actually gave anything that much thought.

It is part of what is bothering me most about all this right now, and is largely why I think the way I do in that he hasn't had much influence. Lately, he seems like he's not saying anything about anything, and the silence has been deafening. The result is the total absence of leadership, and the need, and actual occurrence of states, companies and individuals just making their own best decisions, because that's what they have to do. The impression is, "Where is the President?"

Someone mentioned earlier on in this thread that we're actually witnessing a full-on, public unraveling and collapse -- sadly, I think, and definitely unfortunately -- of the person who holds the highest office in our country.

As you said, this was going to get bad, health-wise. And yes, the problems and challenges are being made infinitely worse by the fact that COVID-19 is so tying up the natural and normal running of the country and the living of our lives, i.e. the all-important ability to afford to live our lives. It's a tough problem, no doubt about it. But I'd feel better, and I think our country would be better off, if Trump had come up with any plan at all to take the bull by the horns and encouraged people to follow it, even if that plan had failed. As you suggested, he has missed what should have been seen as an opportunity.

The President never should have made this about his being re-elected in the first place. But he has zero chance of that happening now.

 

I've wondered. Had America really written off Pearl Harbor, what would the Japanese have done next?

 

You know, most Americans survived Pearl Harbor. Why didn't the MSM report that!?! Instead, the Doom Patrol focused on the deaths and blew it out of proportion.

 

Average American is a D+ because the voices to push kids back into school buildings is overtaking those wanting their kids out.

All this time and energy is being spent to shove 20 kids in a room five days a week, that once it all gets shutdown in two weeks, everyone is right back to UrFucked University.

 

DC’s weirdest superheroes would demand an apology but are too busy.

 

Many/most of those want them in school for child care purposes so people can go to work more easily. Many/most actual parents are not sold on that one.

 

Oh, I think kids need to get back to school. No questions, no doubts. This heroic teaching effort from one's living room...yeah, huh-uh.

But I recognized a month ago and now that the issue needed top-down leadership people trusted. And nobody trusts Trump. He gives no cover, he takes no heat, he wouldn't make it easy for any schools.

That said, if schools en masse don't get back, it'll be a great reckoning for public schools and its teachers. It'll be presented to parents and seen by some parents, as an abject failure of courage and duty on the parts of administrators and teachers to do their part in this crisis. And teachers won't want to hear that. But it's coming, and it's going to be really divisive.

I know two families keeping their kids out of kindergarten and sending them to another year of preschool. Why? Because they'll be open. They'll educate the kids. They'll allow the kids to be around other kids. Preschools are businesses, not public trusts, and they're not waiting around to see if their union is done pouting or the president is struck by some progressive miracle that lets him see the light, or something.

 

Um. No. You don't want to hear that the risk is too great for teachers, students and families.