'Rona Back to School

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We’ve been over Trump’s leadership failures with masks already:

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Yeah, that’s generally what happens after you tell 350 million people “You don’t need…”, then change your mind.

It’s what happens when the president and VP both refuse to lead by example, even suggesting masks were being worn to “signal disapproval” against them, AFTER they issued guidance that masks should be worn:

April 3, 2020 at 9:36 p.m. CDT

President Trump announced new guidance Friday that people in the U.S. wear face coverings in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a reversal of the administration’s earlier recommendations. But Trump immediately said he himself would not choose to do it, even though “it may be good” advice, reflecting the sharp debate in recent days between the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/03/white-house-cdc-turf-battle-over-guidance-broad-use-face-masks-fight-coronavirus/

It’s been a classic case of “do as I say, not as I do, but don’t even do what I say because it makes me look bad” since April. April. In 2 weeks, that will have been 4 months ago.

Less than a week after the WH said masks should be worn on April 3rd, Pence didn’t wear a mask at the Mayo Clinic. At the end of May, Trump didn’t wear a mask to a Ford factory that was making ventilators and PPE. And we just recently saw the president wear a mask for the first time.

Imagine if the president, and the VP/head of the COVID task force, had been leading by example for 4 months.

Surely the pic of Trump not wearing a mask at the Ford factory making PPE and ventilators at the end of May, and Pence not wearing a mask at the MAYO CLINIC (a week after the WH issued its guidance)-despite masks being required in both places-don’t need to be reposted.

Guidance was issued April 3rd. The person who issued the guidance didn’t set the example.

Failure of leadership. This what we teach Cub Scouts about leadership. And we can’t even expect it from the top.

Failure from the top.