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Sunday, March 29th, 2020 02:08 pmQiao got a mailing yesterday which on the front says "PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES FOR AMERICA", and on the back has a list of safety precautions to take.
The front has a CDC logo, a White House logo and "coronavirus.gov".
Yesterday, my reactions to it were mixed. On the one hand, it's good if this means Trump is finally taking it serious, and wants Americans to take it seriously too. (Although "Avoid social gatherings in groups of 10 people or more" doesn't go far enough.)
On the other hand, if this is an official mailing sent out to everyone in the U.S., why does it say "President Trump" on it? He's a *** politician (I'll omit the unpleasant adjectives as that is not my topic here), not a doctor or a scientist. It's not like he came up with these guidelines himself, FFS. It should instead say "The CDC's guidelines", if you want people to take it seriously, FFS.
The same thing for those federal coronavirus news briefings. Why does Trump even take part in them, other than to say he supports what the CDC and other organizations are doing, and that he'll make sure his staff do everything they can to help implement the recommended policies and actions? (Hah, as if.) We don't want to hear Trump ramble on for ten minutes listing the names of the CEOs he's spoken to*, and about how they are great people, just great, and blah blah blah. We want an update on the situation at hand.
*like reverse name-dropping, thinking these people will be pleased that he deigned to praise them in public.
Thinking about the mailing again this morning, I wondered if it might not be from the government after all. Maybe it's from a pro-Trump conservative group, only made out to look like an official message. (As I'm not at my house right now, I don't know if I got the same thing. The USPS Informed Delivery page doesn't show it.)
So I checked the card again, but it doesn't have a "This mailing was paid for by..." clause on it in fine print. It does seem to be official.
A search shows I'm not the only one who feels this way about the mailing:
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/03/trump-branded-coronavirus-government-mailing-spurs-criticism.html
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/27/trump-faces-criticism-coronavirus-mailing-featuring-his-name/2925379001/
Anyway, waste of time writing this, spending any time thinking about it. Things to do.
The front has a CDC logo, a White House logo and "coronavirus.gov".
Yesterday, my reactions to it were mixed. On the one hand, it's good if this means Trump is finally taking it serious, and wants Americans to take it seriously too. (Although "Avoid social gatherings in groups of 10 people or more" doesn't go far enough.)
On the other hand, if this is an official mailing sent out to everyone in the U.S., why does it say "President Trump" on it? He's a *** politician (I'll omit the unpleasant adjectives as that is not my topic here), not a doctor or a scientist. It's not like he came up with these guidelines himself, FFS. It should instead say "The CDC's guidelines", if you want people to take it seriously, FFS.
The same thing for those federal coronavirus news briefings. Why does Trump even take part in them, other than to say he supports what the CDC and other organizations are doing, and that he'll make sure his staff do everything they can to help implement the recommended policies and actions? (Hah, as if.) We don't want to hear Trump ramble on for ten minutes listing the names of the CEOs he's spoken to*, and about how they are great people, just great, and blah blah blah. We want an update on the situation at hand.
*like reverse name-dropping, thinking these people will be pleased that he deigned to praise them in public.
Thinking about the mailing again this morning, I wondered if it might not be from the government after all. Maybe it's from a pro-Trump conservative group, only made out to look like an official message. (As I'm not at my house right now, I don't know if I got the same thing. The USPS Informed Delivery page doesn't show it.)
So I checked the card again, but it doesn't have a "This mailing was paid for by..." clause on it in fine print. It does seem to be official.
A search shows I'm not the only one who feels this way about the mailing:
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/03/trump-branded-coronavirus-government-mailing-spurs-criticism.html
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/27/trump-faces-criticism-coronavirus-mailing-featuring-his-name/2925379001/
Anyway, waste of time writing this, spending any time thinking about it. Things to do.