COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse

[Black Aeronaut]

...yeah, this smacks of somebody who recognizes that, if the food supply suffers, then guaranteed he's got a fight in the upcoming election. Financials he can possibly push off on the decisions of the states to close things down... a food crisis, even if it was just focused on meat, would be something else entirely, especially if it's because of something other than financials. Few people can ignore that there is absolutely legitimate reasons for a meat plant to close when there's a pandemic going on, and that the national response has been less than ideal in terms of dealing with it. And there are ways other than "I'm ordering you to stay open and work" to deal with a food shortage. Although all of the other ways likely involve us having to eat crow with trading "partners" that have been getting jerked around for the past three and a half years.

Really, when you look at this administration - everything they've been doing since eight o'clock day one - it's been the perfect storm version of "How Not To Run Your Federalist Country".

Trump has:

• Systematically dismantled or crippled Federal-level emergency management systems
  
• Pandered to corporate interests, making an already flawed* healthcare system even worse
  
• Intentionally stifled trade, thereby limiting our ability to cope with internal situations that could prove to be destabilizing (e.g.: food crisis)
  
• Placed yes-men in every position of power, and fired people the moment they told him he can't do a certain thing
  
• Overrode common sense decisions of our military leaders (which can have further knock-on effects on trade)
  

* - Yes, I am perfectly willing to say that "Obama Care" never lived up to the hype.  But this is because a re-badged version of Romney Care was the only goddamned thing the Republicans in Congress would allow through, and at the time that was a helluva lot better than nothing!