COVID-19 CONVERSATION: The Trump Pandemic

What stared out as a natural disaster became a human disaster of policies, practices, corruption, politicization and management incompetence.

The President and his government agencies are responsible for

  • failing an early recognition and acceptance of the actual pandemic by the President and losing 2 months of mitigation;
  • even before the start of the pandemic closing the offices of specialized government personnel highly knowledgeable of pandemic;
  • assigning immediate management of the Covid-19 activities to highly incompetent staff;
  • misleading the public on the very seriousness of the pandemic;
  • politicization of the distribution of monies and PPE resources;
  • pressuring GOP governors to speed up the so-called opening of the mitigation measures by allowing parks, golf courses, churches, retail outlets and now more.
  • demanding face masks and social distancing but not practiced by the President and Vice President and the WH staff.

In short, the President has caused the death of tens of thousands people.

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Still Waiting for 14-Day Decline in Cases

SOURCE: MIAMI HERALD

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Florida Deaths Up Again

The number of infections cannot be trusted although the trend might be better. The number of deaths also has errors but less than the contacts, it seems.

SOUTH FLORIDA, INCLUDING CORAL GABLES, SHOULD NOT BE OPENED UNTIL THE INFECTIONS DECLINE FOR 14 DAYS ACCORDING TO THE CDC.

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Opening and Stimulus Favor the 1% Yet Again

The American government is forcing the poor and wage workers class to work although it is not in their immediate interest. The publicly-financed subsidies that were supposed to help workers to be paid during the pandemic have not worked, especially here in Florida. The implementation of the so-called stimulus programs have in practice favored big and financially solid, publicly-traded and politically connected companies, all friends of the big banks.

Small companies have not gotten financing. African-Americans make up 60 percent of the deaths and 14 percent of the populations across the nation. The poor and minimum salary workers are make up an important share of the “essential workers” and the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.