Every day I encounter afresh how much worse even the worst of this is made by the daily emotional terrorism of a sociopathic leader.
2) follow the pandemic playbook
3) listen to the experts
4) accept offered WHO tests
5) begin emergency production in January: tests, masks, ventilators
6) announce nationally coordinated shelter order
7) rent suspension/salary replacement
9) don't blame journalists
10) don't blame governors
11) don't blame hospital workers
12) don't foment insurrection
13) don't hoard medical supplies for political gain
14) don't use your daily briefings for self-aggrandizement, misinformation, and blame
16) don't insist on sole authority
These are all such basic things, such easy calls.
So much of this is unnecessary. So much of this didn't need to happen. So much could have been prevented.
Instead we get emotionally terrorized every day.