Protests and unrest over lockdown restrictions around the world. London, Tokyo, Germany and Chile weary citizens rise up against lockdowns.
Wait … but, it is Trump’s fault, right? Certainly, the mask versus anti-mask issues only belong between the “dumb Trumpsters and radical left”, right?
In a world where so many people have access to computers, I am continually impressed by people’s lack of an ability to look outside our myopic opinions to not seek out the truth. It isn’t hard to find, if you look. “Look at what America has come to? Look what Trump has done? Look at all this unrest he caused!” I see people type statements like that on social media and think, “Um, you have access to the internet because you are on Facebook saying dumb stuff … could you use that information box to possibly look for the real answers?”
We have had the extremely bad luck of being hit with a pandemic during an election year. The handling of COVID-19 and the chaos ensuing after seems awfully easy to put on President Trump. It is an election year after all. It is a convenient untruth that many are fine following and posting about from the same computer that could give them the truth. The problem is, you are completely and utterly wrong.
Warning — truth alert: THIS ISN’T JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM!
Not only has every other country in the world (except for the oh-so-honest North Koreans) have faced every single issue we have. The deaths and overrunning of hospitals in the first wave. The lack of preparedness for it because it was a NOVEL virus … which means … NEW … you can’t be prepared for something that didn’t exist in this form before! The struggling to understand a new virus and treatment and prevention of it. The whole world faced this, not just the US. But, it is Trump’s fault, right?
Beyond the medical ramifications of the virus, the whole world has also had those rising up against masks and lockdowns. Other countries have also faced social unrest from anarchist-types. But, it is Trump’s fault, right?
It is disturbing to me that these truths seem to be buried because it is simply more beneficial to blame a President you are trying to win against. I am going to give you an additional inconvenient truth — the reactions to COVID-19, masks, lockdowns versus freedom, the choices between financial collapse and life exists EVERYWHERE. It is a HUMAN problem that we are facing globally. Those that are laser-focused on only blaming Trump for this — you lose all credibility. If you don’t like him or won’t vote for him, just say that. It would earn more respect from people. But, to take an issue that is happening globally and make it only about the US and in particular, the sitting President .. you are allowing your own biases to blind you to reality.
And, the reality is: THIS IS NOT JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM
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