And the way to prevent panic is not to over hype or exaggerate the dangers or the severity of the outbreak.
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Exactly what is the threshold that determines when something becomes overhyped?
Who makes that determination?
Is there a specific amount of mentions or minutes of coverage that would be acceptable to you on this issue or any other?
The way I see it Trump hasn’t reassured Americans nor has he got out in front of this. And then you have CDC and goverment bureaucracy trying to blame Trump for their incompetence…and then you have local hospital not being up front with those that are tending to patients.
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Who makes that determination? Those that actually understand what’s going on and what’s at stake.
Millions of people no where close to any of the outbreaks rushing to the stored wiping out stocks of such things and hand sanitizer are are real good indication it’s being over hyped and people are actually creating a problem where none existed.
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By brother, one of my many physician brothers and sisters, is doing a little pandemic preparation. His recommendation, along with my police officer brother-in-law in San Antonio, is to gather some emergency supplies, which by the way we do anyway in New Orleans. Have $5,000 dollars cash on hand, have supplies of toilet paper, dried and canned foods, water (which you can always use), over the counter medications, and all the prescription medications we can get ahead of time, and so on This is just supplemental to what we usually have here in New Orleans anyway. Basically, we have a little Costco in our back shed. Oh, and some peanut M&Ms. Yum. We also have a gas grill fully loaded.
Trump isn’t going to be able to calm those predisposed to not trust whatever he says.
How is the CDC blaming him? I haven’t seen that.
Smart folks should have those types of emergency supplies on hand all of the time.
One bad storm is all it takes to make those items invaluable.
Trump not being able to build trust is his fault
No, that’s simply your choice.
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Oh yea, nothing is ever Trump’s fault
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Nobody but you can choose who, when, or what you will or won’t believe.
From what I’m seeing CDC had failed miserably, from test kits to informing hospitals to those tending patients that are effected. And if it’s not CDC doing it it’s the media that doing it for em.
As for Trump, democrats being and ass shouldn’t prevented Trump being up front from the start.
Right…nothing is ever libs fault.
I am aware of the fact that people choose what they believe. Thank you for informing me of this though.
I’m also aware of the fact that leader’s job is to affect people’s beliefs and move them in a positive, productive direction.
If people don’t trust Trump, that’s his failure as a leader.
The only real failure I have seen was one that is pretty inevitable and that was the first run of test kits some of which were unreliable.
When you rush something like that into production bypassing normal testing procedures that’s a risk you run.
Hospital workers are already trained on infectious disease patient handling protocols so I don’t understand that one at all.
Wrong. Liberals overreact to many things Trump does. Trump also has failed to lead.
See how easy that is?
You bet. You do the best you can, but who the hell knows how we will kick it. Because humans are uniquely aware of our own mortality, that influences our lives. Sometimes I believe dogs have it best. We love them (but do they love us?), and they always exist in the present.
No matter how much training you have doesn’t do you any good if you weren’t told. 
Too many people in fact are not, they fail to plan ahead and panic then when there is any sort of emergency wiping out store stocks as a result of the panic.
If you have those supplies on hand as a normal course of things there wouldn’t be such runs.
Yes Trump failed to lead…and goverment bureaucracy is trying to cover their asses.
