More random thoughts.
I'm no Trump apologist, so feel free to take this or leave it, but I'm noticing a constant mantra on Facebook (and probably elsewhere) about this Covid 19 pandemic and the flawed response by the government which, many claim, can be traced directly to Trump's defunding of the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health.
I decided to see what the fact checkers were saying on this claim. Apparently, this depiction of the situation is not true, or at least, it's not true in practice (though it may be true that Trump wanted to defund these institutions).
As is often the case, the facts are more complicated than the charges.
Linking below a few fact-check sources.
Besides the complexity of funding issues and the tendency among partisans of both parties to blame the chief executive for failures in crises like this ("this is Trump's Katrina"), another important perspective that no one's talking about has to do with individual states' readiness. I found an article that analyzes states' readiness for pandemics individually. Interestingly enough, my state, the Golden State, was among the least prepared, financially, in terms of readiness.
I wish it were possible to discuss this terrible pandemic without the requisite partisan bickering, but I suppose that's wishful thinking. I'm pretty sure if this were President Biden making all kinds of mistakes and blunders the partisans on the right would be doing the same thing. It's not just a mad mad world, it's a sad and ugly world, as well.
Politics.
Reading
"Democrats' Misleading Coronavirus Claims" (FactCheck.org)
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