Joe Biden went to Atlanta, met with Asian American Pacific Islander leaders and spoke eloquently and with heartfelt empathy and compassion. As one who has experienced much loss in his own life, he could speak from the heart in a way that was sincere and genuine. He was accompanied by his Vice President, Kamala Harris, whose father was of African descent from Jamaica and her mother was of SOUTH ASIAN descent from India. She, too, could speak in sincere, genuine terms from a perspective of understanding the sting of racism, from her own personal experience.
And then you have the immediate past president. A man of hatred. A man of racism. The one who is single-handedly responsible for stirring up anti-Asian animus and bigotry to try to redirect the focus from his own massive failure to contain a manageable virus that many other countries did successfully contain with early, aggressive action to identify, isolate, contain, contact trace, test and use TARGETED quarantines.
The successful countries used models similar to the pandemic preparedness plan that Barack Obama had developed, with an emphasis on isolating and containing small, local outbreaks before they spread into the general population — closing the barn door BEFORE all the livestock gets out.
Trump literally threw away the Obama pandemic preparedness plan, ignored the virus for months, even though he clearly knew its severity (as he admitted on tape to Bob Woodward), and playing down the risks.
As a result, 550,000 Americans (and counting) are dead.
And Trump, ever the bigot, ever the racist, wants to stir up anti-Asian hatred and violence to redirect attention away from his own massive failure to control the TRUMP PLAGUE.
Joe Biden went to Atlanta, met with Asian American Pacific Islander leaders and spoke eloquently and with heartfelt empathy and compassion. As one who has experienced much loss in his own life, he could speak from the heart in a way that was sincere and genuine. He was accompanied by his Vice President, Kamala Harris, whose father was of African descent from Jamaica and her mother was of SOUTH ASIAN descent from India. She, too, could speak in sincere, genuine terms from a perspective of understanding the sting of racism, from her own personal experience.
And then you have the immediate past president. A man of hatred. A man of racism. The one who is single-handedly responsible for stirring up anti-Asian animus and bigotry to try to redirect the focus from his own massive failure to contain a manageable virus that many other countries did successfully contain with early, aggressive action to identify, isolate, contain, contact trace, test and use TARGETED quarantines.
The successful countries used models similar to the pandemic preparedness plan that Barack Obama had developed, with an emphasis on isolating and containing small, local outbreaks before they spread into the general population — closing the barn door BEFORE all the livestock gets out.
Trump literally threw away the Obama pandemic preparedness plan, ignored the virus for months, even though he clearly knew its severity (as he admitted on tape to Bob Woodward), and playing down the risks.
As a result, 550,000 Americans (and counting) are dead.
And Trump, ever the bigot, ever the racist, wants to stir up anti-Asian hatred and violence to redirect attention away from his own massive failure to control the TRUMP PLAGUE.