Moral failure to back up those on the front lines, be they in the military or in the hospitals, another moral failure of Trump & republican voters all 72 million of them. When you break the hearts of the compassionate you are an asshole, no two ways about it.
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Many front-line medical workers expected that the coronavirus would be a top priority for voters, and that Biden would win by a landslide.
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For doctors who think Trump fumbled the pandemic, the tight election is seen as an insult
KEY POINTS
- Many front-line health-care workers in America expected that the coronavirus pandemic would be a big priority for voters.
- A variety of polls indicate that the majority of Americans don’t approve of the administration’s management of the virus.
- In July, just 32% of Americans said they approved of Trump’s pandemic strategy, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
A doctor treating patients with symptoms related to coronavirus takes a break at a health clinic on April 3, 2020 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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In the spring, U.S. medical workers were heralded as heroes. But by the fall, the rhetoric had started to shift, with the public growing
increasingly fatigued by the
coronavirus pandemic and President
Donald Trump accusing doctors of inflating Covid-19 death counts for money.
With the death toll from the coronavirus continuing to tick up, many medical workers say they hoped for a landslide victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who has said he’ll follow the advice of scientists if he wins the presidency.
“Trump has insulted our integrity and allowed for more than seven months of chaos and excessive deaths (due) to Covid,” said Dr. John Purakal, an emergency medicine physician based in North Carolina. “It’s so surprising to me,” he said. “But here we are.”
A variety of polls indicate that the majority of Americans don’t approve of the administration’s management of the coronavirus. In July, just 32% of Americans said they approved of Trump’s pandemic strategy, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In August, 7 out of 10 Americans who responded to a CNN poll said the president’s response was embarrassing. NBC exits polls from Election Day and early voting, found that 51% of voters think U.S. efforts to contain the outbreak are going badly.
Biden may still eke out a victory. But after the Trump administration undermined or contradicted its own medical experts on everything from wearing masks to reopening schools at the beginning of the outbreak, the tight race feels like a slap in the face for many physicians fighting the pandemic .
Texas and Florida — where there have been more than 960,000 and 827,000 confirmed cases, respectively, so far — solidly went for Trump even though Democrats thought the outbreak gave them a fighting chance in some red states.
“Many of us are now questioning whether we’re speaking into an echo chamber,” said Miami-based physician Dr. Krishna Komanduri. Miami-Dade County dealt a big blow to the Biden campaign in Florida and helped seal the state for Trump.
The economy, and not the pandemic, was more of a priority for 70% of Trump voters, according to the NBC poll.
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