If you are an American, do you have confidence

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I have as much confidence in his leadership now as I did last month, last year, and when he was elected.

I don’t see this as a situation where a President (any President) has much impact, to be honest.
 
Trying to look for reasons to make this crisis political doesn’t do anyone any good. There is no reasonable expectation that anyone else may have done better.
 
I think he has done very well considering the enormity of this event. A tornado, hurricane or earthquake impacts a certain area of our country. This impacts the entire country and territories.

We will see if the precautions put in place will help our country not to have the
level of cases as other countries. Time will tell.
 
You will note that I did not indicate numerically just how “much” that is 🙂

In all seriousness, I don’t think this crisis should be politicized and I would say that regardless of whether it was Trump, Bush, Clinton, Carter, FDR etc sitting in the White House. Basically if whoever is President marshals a reasonable team of health experts and FEMA and doesn’t run and hide in a bunker, I’m okay with it.
 
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I have confidence in the U.S. Constitution, which sets checks and balances on all three branches of our government.

The one problem that I am seeing with the leadership of Pres. Trump and all the other leaders (including our governor, J.B. Pritzker), is that none of them are recognizing that one of the reasons for the delays in getting testing results is the short-staffing in hospitals, especially in labs.

It doesn’t matter if a large number of tests are collected and submitted, and it doesn’t matter if there is an instrument that can run them–what matters is whether there is a lab tech who is available to run those tests.

In my lab today in microbiology, we finally decided to assign the various benches not according to a “schedule” that was done two months ago, but according to our strengths and weaknesses. I am absolutely horrible at anything clerical or computer, so I was assigned to read THREE traditional microbiology benches (instead of just one), and I had a great day, finished all three benches with an hour to spare, and spent that hour doing some quality control that has been sitting undone for several weeks.

Others who are savvy with clerical and computer tasks were assigned to organize and send out the stacks of COVID-19 tests as they came in. And one tech was assigned to answer the phone–she’s good at it and much more pleasant and coherent than Peeps!

But it took us two weeks to get to a place where we re-organized! And it really helped that we had everyone in the department minus one (supervisor on vacation) working today. Two days ago, we only had four people instead of six, and it was pretty awful.

I wish that Pres. Trump and the other leaders would recognize this problem and let the country know that we need more people to decide to earn their credentials to work in the clinical laboratory!
 
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May I ask you a question, and I mean this in all sincerity, why do you care? People complain about us Americans getting up in everyone else’s business, but why does everyone seem so obsessed with what we do?
 
I have absolutely none. Not only because imo he’s badly managed it, lied about it, and has ignored evidence, but also that we should never have confidence in our leaders about anything, as they can do nothing.

“It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to put confidence in man.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to put confidence in princes.”

“Good things and bad, life and death,
poverty and wealth, come from the Lord.”
 
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May I ask you a question, and I mean this in all sincerity, why do you care? People complain about us Americans getting up in everyone else’s business, but why does everyone seem so obsessed with what we do?
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Because Trump, I reckon.
If it were just the umpteenth return of some politician named Bush, no one would be asking.
There’s something about Donald that many people seem to find so riveting.
 
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Yes. Trump is an executive leader, not a politician. That sets him apart from other Presidents. And I believe he would do a better job than a “lifetime politician” during this pandemic.
 
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Trump has nothing to do with it. The virus came from China. What’s wrong with identifying it as such? As was mentioned above, what about the Spanish Flu? Naming something related to its origin doesn’t make it racist, so quit trying to make it so. Deal with racism where it is real, not this made up stuff!
 
The Spanish Flu did not even originate in Spain, yet nobody has a problem calling it the Spanish Flu, whereas we are pretty sure the coronavirus originated in China.
 
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