There’s NO indication he understands the situation well enough to have based his decision on this. ZERO. It’s all based on his infallible gut.
“You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes and they’ll have two ventilators. Now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’"
Correct, it WILL be the limiting factor; but there will absolutely be a period before then where we have trained people and no equipment. Some hospitals are there already, and are resorting to the “multiple patients on a single ventilator technique.” https://twitter.com/brianmrosenthal/status/1243542604031102976
I’ve always said that the worst part of being an atheist is that I don’t have the comfort of believing that people like Dick Cheney and Donald Trump will spend eternity burning in Hell.
That’s interesting, isn’t it. Imagine a situation where every decision for Trump had been reduced to yes or no, and he had made the choice by flipping a coin. We would still probably be better off than what we have now. What does it mean that Trump infallibly manages to do the wrong thing in every situation? Doesn’t that suggest genuine malice, rather than mere incompetence?
Maybe? Sure. It is an easy, specific moment to point too.
But what is clear is that the man spent his entire life trying to buy his way into the most elite circles of New York Society. His inferiority complex is well documented going back well before 2011.
Trump’s new approach, rather than do anything about it: just complain about it! (Bonus: he contradicts a previous statement he made, because of course.)
Well, he wants to give the appearance that he’s doing something about the situation, while all he actually does is just complain.
It is, it really is. In almost every situation (especially if he can’t react by firing someone).
Well, given that he should have ordered these back when the briefing was made in January about the coming situation, yeah, he’s a little late… They’re already letting people die because of a lack of equipment.
I’ve often said that a dog would make a better president than Trump. This is proof.
This particular crisis has made it clear that all of Trump’s personality defects and cognitive issues (i.e. being an idiot, petty sociopath) cause him to do the wrong things consistently. All his instincts, all his standard approaches (that he can’t work outside of), they all cause him to do the opposite of what he should do at every stage in this situation.
Trump explained to Sean Hannity that he just doesn’t think the numbers feel right.
Trump told Hannity: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’”
Gee, I wonder why hospitals have an increased need for ventilators “all of a sudden.”
In the story I read, it was nixed because they were afraid that they would over-buy.
How terrible would that be, to have a surplus of ventilators if anything like this should happen again, (and it will) or to be able to provide them to other places in need?
