{"id":519,"date":"2020-08-22T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:21:21","slug":"how-the-white-house-coronavirus-response-went-wrong-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/how-the-white-house-coronavirus-response-went-wrong-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"How the White House Coronavirus Response Went Wrong – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the past two months, I have had lengthy conversations with some 30 scientists, health experts, and past and current government officials\u2014all of them people with firsthand knowledge of what our response to the coronavirus pandemic should have been, could have been, and actually was. The government officials had served or are still serving in the uniformed military, on the White House staff, or in other executive departments, and in various intelligence agencies. Some spoke on condition of anonymity, given their official roles. As I continued these conversations, the people I talked with had noticeably different moods. First, in March and April, they were astonished and puzzled about what had happened. Eventually, in May and June, they were enraged. \u201cThe president kept a cruise ship from landing in California, because he didn\u2019t want \u2018his numbers\u2019 to go up,\u201d a former senior government official told me. He was referring to Donald Trump\u2019s comment, in early March, that he didn\u2019t want infected passengers on the cruise ship Grand Princess to come ashore, because \u201cI like the numbers being where they are.\u201d Trump didn\u2019t try to write this comment off as a \u201cjoke,\u201d his go-to defense when his remarks cause outrage, including his June 20 comment in Tulsa that he\u2019d told medical officials to \u201cslow the testing down, please\u201d in order to keep the reported case level low. But the evidence shows that he has been deadly earnest about denying the threat of COVID-19, and delaying action against it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via: <\/i>How the White House Coronavirus Response Went Wrong – The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the past two months, I have had lengthy conversations with some 30 scientists, health experts, and past and current government officials\u2014all of them people with firsthand knowledge of what our response to the coronavirus pandemic should have been, could have been, and actually was. The government officials had served or are still serving in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}