Time for Leadership

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"Face of Fear" 
     We are in unprecedented times. A time of extreme uncertainty, confusion and cause for great fear and nervousness. It is not a time for party politics and boastful pride to take center stage.

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, our leadership has been confused, contradictory and extremely slow to act.

These qualities are not what we look for in a leadership and especially our President.

This President relies on grand gestures, lies, self-praise,  fear mongering and threats. All of these things came to light during his press conference on Friday.

If this was just some political gesture with no repercussions other than another get out of jail free card for him, it wouldn't be an issue.
But with a global pandemic creeping over the world, direct, decisive and true action is needed.


We are seeing shelves in grocery stores bare of essentials. Local governments shutting down all commerce and a stock market in free fall.

There is no doubt that swifter, more definitive action taken by this administration could have helped lesson the severity of this things.  But what we received instead was more of this administrations boastful deception and lack of clarity.

This coronavirus will be a sad memory in the not to distant future, but the emotional and economic toll it will take could last for generations.

What we need now is a common sense.  Calm in the face of chaos and look to the health organizations for ways to avoid this virus.

Please look to the World Health Organization for up-to-date information about Covid-19.   https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
And also the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html

Above all, stay civil and safe.



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