{"id":805235,"date":"2020-03-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380433"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-ego-driven-ineptitude-of-trump-has-led-to-wider-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-ego-driven-ineptitude-of-trump-has-led-to-wider-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Ego-driven ineptitude of Trump has led to wider exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the Summit Daily News warning that we all had better take the coronavirus seriously. Perhaps I should have sent a copy to the White House. Having gutted the very agency that President Barack Obama had created that was to deal with pandemics such as Ebola and now this latest scourge, President Donald Trump literally hamstrung this nation\u2019s ability to respond because, for one major result, there weren\u2019t enough tests stockpiled to determine the extent to which this virus now has spread.<\/p>\n

Now we find ourselves in a situation where doctors and hospitals are having to triage those whose symptoms indicate that they might have contracted the disease. The elderly who have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19 seem to be getting priority for testing when, if the nation\u2019s self-proclaimed medical expert, Donald Trump, hadn\u2019t completely dropped this ball, we as a country wouldn\u2019t now be as vulnerable to the massive market panic, shutdowns, cancellations, empty grocery store shelves and deep disruptions in our lives that we either are now experiencing or soon will.<\/p>\n

Amid all the hype, disinformation and mudslinging that goes with our national elections, I wonder if the American voter will remember the ego-driven ineptitude that has led to our wider national exposure to this epidemic. If the economy tanks as badly as the stock market, Trump can resort to conspiracy theories that its all the Democrats\u2019 fault and that no one could foresee the coming of this virus. But to the degree that Trump\u2019s very own screw-up has exposed all Americans to a far worse situation than it either needed to be or might have been, they ought to hold him responsible. As Harry Truman astutely remarked, \u201cThe buck stops at the president\u2019s desk.\u201d This buck\u2019s medical, economic and leadership flaws surely do, as well.<\/p>\n

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Some weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the Summit Daily News warning that we all had better take the coronavirus seriously. Perhaps I should have sent a copy to the White House. Having gutted the very agency that President Barack Obama had created that was to deal with pandemics such as Ebola and now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 16:49:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}