OK, now we are hearing a lot about Bob Woodward’s new
book, “Rage”, from Simon and Schuster, 466 pages, due out Sept. 15, comprising
18 interviews with Trump.
There is a lot being said in media today about Bob
Woodward’s reporting a conversation he had with Trump on Tuesday, Jan. 29,
where Trump realized that the novel coronavirus would be deadly and could be
easily passed through the air. But Trump
didn’t want to cause “panic”. He later
understood if could affect younger people and could become a grave national
security threat.
Now I written elsewhere that the US cases as reported
rose only very slowly in February, partly because of a flawed CDC test, but
also because there really weren’t any “superspreader” indoor events in the US
until probably late in February. It
doesn’t seem that surfaces or brief personal encounters was spreading the virus
much.
It’s arguable that by late February (based on what was
happening in Italy and the certainty people had flown here with the virus from
Europe as well as China) that a soft “stay at home” could have prevented much
of the run up of cases we saw in NYC and then other locations starting in mid
March.
Had Trump acted by late February, I might have
recovered the $3500 or so that I lost with a trip that I self-canceled out of exploding
concern about the virus from my own info.
Robert Costa and Philip Rucker report in the
Washington Post, here.
Trump could give a knee-jerk reaction to all this
criticism in coming weeks.
They also report that the book covers Trump’s evasion
of the issue of structural racism (or critical race theory), which I personally
have a lot of problems with (it isn’t the right way to look at personal social
creditworthiness).
It also covers some of the actions and exchanges with
Kim Jong Un (as with Jim Sciutto’s book).
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