Much has been wanting about Trump’s response to the outbreak. But de
Blasio’s fulminations against Trump are clearly meant to divert from his
own failures of leadership. De Blasio equivocated on obvious measures
like closing schools. He could not even bring himself to close the
city’s playgrounds. When these were finally shuttered, it was by decree
of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. De Blasio went along with the plan
reluctantly—“I respect that,” he said of the decision—like a child being
dragged to the dentist by his determined dad. On WYNC on Friday,
he said researchers had only discovered “in the last 48 hours” that
asymptomatic people can spread the disease. If Trump made the same
preposterous claim, there would be howling calls for impeachment,
renewed questions about his state of mind. Public-health professionals
have known for months how the coronavirus spreads and who can do the
spreading. If de Blasio didn't know, the fault is fully his own.
And this is what I've been telling you even as you block my comments: failures on both sides of the aisle. Leaders at all levels screwing up but the obsession with Trump erases all the other idiocies. The system is broken. It puts incompetent people in positions of power repeatedly while the good people below them struggle to hold things together. That's what we need to focus on.
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