Leaders Across the Country are Failing Mother Nature’s IQ Test

When asked why she did not cancel the Mardi Gras this year, the New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, said the Federal Government did not advise her to cancel the event.

Is she kidding?

She could see the Coronavirus sprouting up across the country in Washington State and California. She should have known by then how the virus could spread.

The Mardi Gras apparently proved to be a smorgasbord for the Coronavirus.

Now Lousiana is among the state’s highest hit with the virus.

The New Orleans Mayor and Louisana’s Governor (John Bel Edwards,) both Democrats, failed Mother Natures IQ Test when they allowed the Mardi Gras to go on.

This failure to fathom reality and imagine worst-case scenarios has also displayed itself with other leaders across the country.

Brian Kemp, the Republican Governor of Georgia claimed in a press briefing when he announced that states Stay at Home order that he was unaware “asymptomatic people can transmit #Covid19, saying,  “Individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad, but we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours.” 

Jaws dropped across the literate and informed portions of the populace after Kemp uttered those words.

As one of the commentators on one of the Cable Networks said, the Center for Disease Control is within walking distance to the Governor’s office in Georgia. He really did not think to make a local call to the experts in the area to find out how the virus could spread.

Ron DeSantis, the Republican Governor of Florida is no better. He based his decision to issue a Stay at Home Proclamation, not on the science, but the demeanor of Donald Trump at one of his press briefings, saying “when you see the President up there and his demeanor the last couple of days, that’s not necessarily how he always is.” 

Now because of his failing Mother Nature’s IQ test, Floridians, with a high senior population are struggling to make ends meet, with people, laid off because of the virus, not able to get unemployment insurance processed in a timely fashion because of the screws DeSantis predecessor and now Senator Rick Scott put on the safety net in Florida.

Even in Arizona, the golf courses are still open and there are legislators like Mark Finchemand Kelly Townsend that worry about asking people to stay home because it would needlessly compromise individual freedoms and the economy.

Most would agree it is better safe at home then dead because you wanted to play with your buddies on the golf course.

The major example of leaders failing Mother Natures IQ Test and not having an imagination is in the White House. The list of unforced errors is starting to be endless so the focus in this piece is the decision by the Stable Genius to put his son in law Jared Kushner in a position to help coordinate the response to the Coronavirus.

Kushner made his first public comments on the Coronavirus at the White House Briefing Room yesterday.

The headlines following his appearance say it all.

Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times wrote a piece titled “Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness.”

Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post wrote an article called “An Outbreak of Incompetence.”

In another post article written by Allyson Chu called “Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus briefing debut sparks outcry, confusion,” Kushner was introduced by Vice President Mike Pence, saying he “was grateful for his efforts (Kushner’s) and his leadership.”

GAG ME.

Kushner then went on a rant, like his father in law, of blaming the Governors and other local leaders of mismanaging the situation.

Some of his noteworthy comments reported by the Post pieces were:

“The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use.”

“Some governors you speak to, or senators, and they don’t know what’s in their state….Don’t ask us for things when you don’t know what you have in your own state. Just because you’re scared, you ask your medical professionals and they don’t know. You have to take inventory of what you have in your own state and then you have to be able to show that there’s a real need.”

“What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody … think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.” 

GAG ME AGAIN. There is no way his father in law, the 2016 Popular Vote Loser is competent.

In the Goldberg editorial, Kushner, despite the views of Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that New York did not need the 33,000 ventilators Governor Cuomo had been asking for.

During World War Two, Franklin Roosevelt had George Marshall to help manage World War Two.

Jared Kushner is not George Marshall.

It is time for Ivanka and him to go home to New York.

In the Rubin article, examples abound of Trump’s third and fourth team appointees, either because of ideology or plain smarts, being unable to rise to the challenge of this public health crisis.

Republican and Democratic Governors across the country like Mike DeVine, Jay Inslee, Gretchen Whitmer, Larry Hogan, Gavin Newsom, Charlie Baker, and Andrew Cuomo have shown what a strong response to the Virus should look like.

Other leaders like Trump, Kemp, DeSantis, Bel Edwards, and Cantrell would do well to stop failing Mother Nature’s IQ test and start to learn from the above-mentioned governors and science experts in moving forward or at the very least read books like the Andromeda Strain or the history of the 1918 Influenza Virus. If they are reading challenged, watch Outbreak or  Twelve Monkeys to gain an appreciation of how serious this is.

They need to pick competent people like a Fauci or someone from the Army Corp of Engineers to handle the national response to this virus and coordinate with all 50 states.

They need to do that now.

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