Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Note to the Trump-hating media: Just shut up and say, 'Thank you'

Note to the Trump-hating media: Just shut up and say, 'Thank you'
Excerpt: ...I think of this interchange each time I listen to President Trump's updates on preparations for dealing with the coronavirus crisis. The personal protective equipment and ventilators his team members are assembling for distribution to the various states. The field hospitals his Army Corps of Engineers is building in New York, Chicago, and Louisiana. The financial package his Treasury Department negotiated through Congress in less than a week. The emergency approval his FDA has granted for off-label usage of hydroxychloroquine and other possibly life-saving therapies. And so on. Despite these advances on so many fronts, there are always several journalists in the crowd who come loaded only with gotcha questions. Does your son-in-law know what he's doing? Shouldn't you have reacted to this earlier? It's the same questions, from the same folks, day after day. If he were more eloquent, he might drive home the point that New York is woefully short of ventilators because it chose to spend the state and city treasuries on other matters.

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