re: #83 Decatur Deb

Assuming it’s totally accurate, why did the NYT have to go to Belgium for the story? At most they would have to cross the Hudson for a nursing home horrorshow.

Must have been the beer.

My brother, the devout Trumpster, blames Cuomo and de Blasio for the entire disaster out East — especially what happened in the nursing homes there. He won’t listen to the fact that it was the federal government who traditionally manages disasters like this and who should have been providing guidance on what measures the states should adopt. The individual states were left to fend for themselves. This article demonstrates that it wasn’t just the US who faced this problem: Belgium too had fractured government that did not speak with a single voice at the national level to address this crisis.

If the US had not abandoned its worldwide leadership role, we might have had experts here who advised not only us, but the rest of the world on the steps that should have been taken.