{"id":42310,"date":"2020-04-18T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42310"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:37:54","slug":"noticing-a-partisan-pattern-on-alarm-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42310","title":{"rendered":"Noticing a partisan pattern on alarm levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I noticed it early on during the coronavirus pandemic crisis.<\/p>\n

Democrats across the nation began sounding the alarm about the potential for mass illness and death; Republicans were, um, a bit more serene about it.<\/p>\n

The pattern has continued even as the nation’s economy has ground to a halt, even as governors take varying degrees of steps to fight the virus. Democrats have declared statewide mandates to stay at home, maintain social distance, closing off indoor and outdoor activities; Republicans have expressed more openly their concerns about the impact of all these measures on the economy.<\/p>\n

I am not suggesting that Republicans do not care about the health of Americans. I am suggesting that their publicly stated comments focus more on economic health than on individuals’ physical health.<\/p>\n

From whom or what are they taking their cue? Gosh, my best guess is that it’s coming from president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

You heard Trump say early on that the nation had 15 cases of the COVID-19 infection and that it would vanish to zero. As they say \u2026 oops!<\/em> Not so!<\/p>\n

We’ve logged nearly 40,000 deaths<\/em> in the United States. We have a full-blown health crisis on our hands. Yet we keep hearing from Republican governors that they want to reopen their states as quickly as possible. Democrats, meanwhile, suggest a go-slower approach to this, seeking more testing, more data, more science to guide their decisions.<\/p>\n

Are members of one political party smarter than members of the other one? I won’t go there. I just am concerned about the partisan divide that even a crisis as massive and dangerous as the one we’re experiencing cannot erase.<\/p>\n

In truth, though, I am siding with the Democrats on this one. Their concern is the more appropriate response to this worldwide crisis.<\/p>\n\n

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I noticed it early on during the coronavirus pandemic crisis. Democrats across the nation began sounding the alarm about the potential for mass illness and death; Republicans were, um, a bit more serene about it. The pattern has continued even as the nation’s economy has ground to a halt, even as governors take varying degrees … Continue reading Noticing a partisan pattern on alarm levels<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9236,9261],"class_list":["post-42310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42312,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310\/revisions\/42312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}