{"id":43091,"date":"2020-06-11T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43091"},"modified":"2020-06-11T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:53","slug":"this-isnt-success-in-covid-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43091","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t &#8216;success&#8217; in COVID fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID19%20%23coronavirus%20%23pandemic%20%23WHO%20%23CDC&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42193\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump keeps yapping about the &#8220;fantastic&#8221; job he and his administration have done and are doing to fight the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. I looked at some numbers compiled by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of this very day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world has logged 7.3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. The United States reports 2.04 cases. The United States comprises about 5 percent of the world population, but we have reported nearly 30 percent of the world total of infection.<\/li>\n<li>Earth reports 413,854 deaths from the killer virus. The U.S. total is 114,452. That&#8217;s 27 percent of the world total, again in a country that comprises about 5 percent of the world population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s success? That is a &#8220;fantastic&#8221; job?<\/p>\n<p><em>No. Neither is true<\/em>. What is true is that Donald Trump&#8217;s pledge to protect Americans against all our adversaries, even those we cannot see, has gone unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Imbecile in Chief keeps insisting he is doing so well that we simply must send him back to the presidency for another four years.<\/p>\n<p>Aye, caramba! Perish the thought.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers all by themselves tell me he is failing the fundamental test of presidential leadership. I will concede there might be a discrepancy in the reporting of illness in some of places on Earth. Indeed, I am willing to argue that even in the United States &#8212; the most advanced nation on the planet &#8212; infection and death rates likely are underreported, too.<\/p>\n<p>We are failing &#8212; not succeeding &#8212; in the fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID19%20%23coronavirus%20%23pandemic%20%23WHO%20%23CDC&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump keeps yapping about the &#8220;fantastic&#8221; job he and his administration have done and are doing to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Hmm. I looked at some numbers compiled by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of this very day: The world has logged 7.3 million confirmed cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This isn&#8217;t &#8216;success&#8217; in COVID fight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11],"tags":[891,9236,9257,9261,5258],"class_list":["post-43091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-cdc","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091","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=43091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43092,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091\/revisions\/43092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}