At least in “Airport 1975,” the flight attendant carefully followed the instructions of the pilot on the ground. Trump relies on magical thinking instead of the advice of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts.
How else to explain Trump’s proposal to have businesses across the country “opened up” and the “churches packed” by Easter Sunday, April 12? Easing the preventive lockdowns and other measures, one might think, would only be done after careful assessment of the course of the pandemic, the continuing need for those measures and the risk-reward of scaling them back. Here is the data that Trump relied on: “I just thought it was a beautiful time.”
- Trump's magical thinking won't stop the coronavirus pandemic, TheHill.com, by Gregory J. Wallace, March 27, 2020.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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