Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pemalite]

sethnintendo said:
Just stop Eric. He asked a stupid question. It was so stupid they tried to play it off as being sarcastic. That's when you know you fucked up.

It's called "back peddling". - All politicians do it when they get themselves stuck in the mud so to speak.

JRPGfan said:

Its good that you realise that, is how things would work in a "perfect" world. Where things make sense.
(your batshit stupid, you ask stupid questions of your advisers, when your off live tv)

Thats how it works for every other nations leaders when they do press briefings.
They make sure they dont communicate, their own stupidity, or ask stupid questsions, which could result in stupid people trying stupid things, live on tv, infront of a nation. This stuff is the basic minimum level required of a nations leader, and trump fails on it. He constantly says stupid things, lies, backtracks, countradicts himself or his advisers.  How is any of that good for a nation? if anything it just shows you cant trust current leadership in this situation.

At the moment I am doing a diploma in leadership for emergency management... And ironically we are using Trump and Jacinda Ardern as our case studies... Because their response to the current COVID situation is polar opposites and worlds apart... Where-as Jacinda took a very rapid and effective response with a degree of empathy, Trump's response has had mixed support from the public as he promotes conspiracy theories, unproven "medical" ideas and fails to get appropriate warnings and messaging out to the public.

At the end of the day... Trumps response has been comical from the very start... And New Zealand is showing how it should be done... A small island nation is besting the worlds super power, go figure.

John2290 said:
@Pemalite

When I say the planet I mean the planet with life on it but mostly life. If you're on the side of a rock over life then you need to rethink things. Life is the most important thing we know of in the universe, it gives rise to differing forms of conciousness and for thr universe itself it gives a chance for self reflection, to evalute itself. There is nothing more important than higher consciousness beings surviving on the rocks in the universe to carry on, get more intelligent and keep on poking and proding to figure out what's going on.

I am a first responder in multiple rescue agencies, I need not clarify my position of where life sits on the hierarchy of priorities... Nor was my statement anything do with that anyway.