The biggest lesson of a pandemic is that our leadership needs to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is for the public to listen and learn.
1/20/2020 A day that will live in infamy once a history of the coronavirus pandemic is written. On that infamous day, a Washington state male who returned from a stay with his family in Wuhan in China was the first one in the USA to be diagnosed with the coronavirus. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
On that same day 5K miles away the first confirmed Korean case of Covid-19 was reported. From that moment forward, the reactions and subsequent developments were almost the opposite. As South Korea began testing, the USA started stalling and distributing false hope and disinformation. Then seemingly overnight POTUS became a paranoid prince of denial, calling the virus a hoax by the Democrats and predicting it would magically go away, while the Korean president found a way to mobilize a national and unprecedented public health attack on the deadly virus.
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“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Donald F Trump - 1/22/2020 Months later, we have a global pandemic and a national disaster for our families' future.
