Leo wrote:

> On 2020 Apr 30, , Bruce wrote
> (in >):
>
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:32:37 -0700, >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 2020 Apr 30, , Cindy Hamilton wrote
> > > (in >):
> > >
> > > > Nobody wants to work if it endangers their life. Him waving his hand
> > > > and saying "everybody back to work" is foolish and simplistic.
> > >
> > > And yet it isnt happening, because he ceded the power to open up the
> > > states to the respective governors
> >
> > He ceded power? Didn't the governors always have that power? And
> > didn't everybody know that, except Trump? Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
> > not American, you know.
>
> Imprecise language on my part. Every governor would like him to be the
> final word. Every congressman would too. Not one Democrat would object if
> he did. One person to blame is safer than a thousand. He didnt fall for
> it.


In this case, he is a brilliant strategist...


> Meanwhile, he implemented the Defense Production Act for ventilators which
> were deemed vital in early March, desperately needed, and practically
> nonexistent for the coming crisis.
>
> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...order-defense-
> production-act-regarding-purchase-ventilators/>
>
> Now we supply them to countries that need them. We have a glut, because
> so-called sophisticated computer models didnt prognosticate sh*t.. They
> are pretty much like sophisticated climate change models that don't
> prognosticate sh*t. You just gotta believe!
> I seem to be using the word sh*t a lot lately. I wonder what it means?


History will one day judge that this whole extended lockdown thing as one of the biggest goofs in history, along the lines of Hitler invading the USSR or Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" utterance...

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Greg