Our president has done worse than abandon us — he’s actually taken action after action to make our situation worse.
Like hundreds of thousands of people across the country right now, I’m pregnant. I’m 26-weeks along, and due in July.
A global pandemic is not the ideal time to start a family. I should be building my registry, planning my baby shower, signing up for birthing classes. Instead I’m grasping at any information I can, exchanging articles with other pregnant women as we all try to figure out just how worried we should be. Forget the baby shower; I don’t know when — or even if — my mother, who lives four states away, will be able to meet my newborn son.
But as I watch the U.S. skyrocket past the rest of the world in Covid-19 cases, as governors across the country plead for ventilators and supplies, as the number of deaths in New York City surpasses those in China, and as testing across the country is scarce to nonexistent, I know this isn’t just some natural disaster. This is the result of an administration that has led with ineptitude and undermined our health care system and security net at every turn.
Instead of leading the country in a no-nonsense disaster response, Trump has fallen back on grandstanding,
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