In December 2019, a teenager in Washington state built this site and started tracing the spread of the coronavirus: HERE.
NOTE 1: December 2019. NOTE 2: A TEENAGER.
On January 7, 2020, The New York Times posted this story on page 13: "China Grapples With Mystery Pneumonia-Like Illness."
From CBS News: “At four o'clock in the morning on Thursday, January 9, taking second billing to a pop star's big revelation (‘Singer Justin Bieber revealed that he's been battling Lyme disease; he says that he's getting treatment’), coronavirus got its first mention on a CBS News broadcast.” Read and see CBS’s complete article HERE.
What about Donald Trump?
HE WAS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.
Coronavirus was a hoax. It was contained. It would disappear like a miracle. It would "wash through" due to higher temperatures. “We have it totally under control,” he bragged. "It's the Democrat's latest hoax," he grumbled.
“We wasted six weeks of early warning time," said Professor Ashish Jha, head of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Trump did nothing. His was approach was denial, deceit, and delay.
TRUMP WAS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.
The deaths that could have been prevented if Trump had acted reminded me of Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "If I shouldn't be alive" (below on the left). Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem with the same first line (below on the right).
By Emmett Lee Dickinson: If I shouldn’t be alive When this plague is done, Blame the one in orange spray tan The deplorable bum – If I can’t torment him, Being long asleep, You will know I’m cursing With my granite lip! | By Emily Dickinson: If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb – If I couldn't thank you, Being just asleep, You will know I'm trying With my granite lip! |