Originally Posted by
IDriveJets
Okay let’s blame the virus and pandemic.
Who could have mitigated the impact? The person in charge who serves the interests of the people. From the outset he downplayed it, called it a hoax, tweeted and wished it away.
People here were too busy acting entitled and barking about their freedom when they don’t even know how to exercise freedom responsibly. People here were too busy siding with him promoting conspiracy theories, refusing to social distance, not wear masks because he and his minions encouraged the behavior.
Other countries actually managed to contain the virus and take measures to overcome it until a vaccine was created. You know how that works? By people listening and working together to overcome a common enemy.
Countries like UAE, New Zealand, countries in Africa, heck even China where the virus came from handled it better than we did. They put rules in place and enforced them strictly with no exceptions.
What America needed when this pandemic hit was the unity that brought people together on September 12th, 2001 and we didn’t have that. To this day misinformation, conspiracy theories, entitlement and plain stupidity keep screwing this country.
Every business (not just airlines) and individual got hammered here because the elected representatives didn’t do their damn job when they had to.
300,000 deaths and the ongoing ****show could have been mitigated but his supporters will never get that.
In the US the president isn’t omnipotent, he can use the bully pulpit to make suggestions, but the action comes from the state level. Trump initially closed the borders and was attacked as being a racist, when he didn’t go further, he was attacked for being complacent. The misinformation, conspiracy theories, entitlement, and stupidity that you mention are rampant on both sides. Trump haters are still digging deeper to find a Russian connection, while ignoring stories about Hunter Biden corruption and Cuomo sexual harassment complaints. Trump supporters are trying to show that the election was rigged and that Biden didn’t simply win key states by a close margin, just as Trump did in 2016, while covering up his own scandals with a former porn star or disrespectful comments about grabbing women.
I’m the farthest thing from a Trump supporter, I’m embarrassed by much of what he says, but what could he have really done? Other countries had very strict lockdowns, closed borders, mask mandates, etc, and still they got hammered. Given how our country was founded and operates, your job security would be in the same place under any administration. When a global pandemic guts the worldwide demand for a service, those employed to provide that service are going to face negative consequences. Being that this has nothing to do with Air Wisconsin open time, perhaps we should take this to the COVID thread if you have more to say.