Positive Thinking & Pandemic - President Trump interview

Teri Fedler
August 7, 2020
Axios interview on July 28, 2020 says, “Jonathan Swan’s interview with President Trump is getting high marks for the interviewer, not the subject.” Mr. Swan asked the President about his “adherence to a philosophy of positive thinking” and how that philosophy is suitable for handling a pandemic. After hearing President Trump’s answers, I couldn’t even watch the rest of the interview. He said he put the travel ban on China that “nobody”/“practically nobody” wanted him to do because it was “very early in January.” But it’s reported that he announced the travel ban on January 31st that didn’t go into effect until Feb 2nd, and China had already banned travel within it’s own country and then in and out of Wuhan beginning on Jan 23rd .” It is also published, “His decision was far from a solo one, nor was it made over opposition from health experts, as the White House coronavirus task force makes clear. His decision followed a consensus by his public health advisers that the restrictions should take place. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar,…announced the travel restrictions, said Trump made the decision in late January after accepting the “uniform recommendation of the career public health officials here at HHS.” “While the World Health Organization did advise against the overuse of travel restrictions, Azar told reporters in February that his department’s career health officials had made a “considered recommendation, which I and the president adopted” in a bid to slow spread of the virus.” “Most major airlines had already suspended flights to China prior to the announcement on Jan. 31, following the lead of several major international carriers that had stopped due to the coronavirus outbreak. Delta, American and United cited a sharp drop in demand for the flights, and an earlier State Department advisory told Americans not to travel to China because of the outbreak.” He also said he put a travel ban on Europe and that all the “experts” didn’t want to do it and thought it was too severe, but he did it anyway. But it’s reported that, “The first European country swamped by the virus was Italy. On Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands issued advisories against travel to Italy. Then, on Feb. 27, Israel banned incoming travel from Italy. Over the next several days, Singapore, Indonesia, and other countries followed suit. Trump was invited to do what these governments were doing. He refused. On Feb. 26, a reporter asked him whether he planned to restrict travel from Italy. “I’m not the president of other countries,” Trump replied. “We have to focus on this country. I don’t think it’s right to impose our self on others.” He added, “At a right time, we may do that. Right now, it’s not the right time.” On Feb. 29, the administration issued a travel advisory, but it was voluntary. It applied to only a small fraction of Italy, and it didn’t directly address travel from Italy at all. Not until March 11, about six weeks after his move against China, did Trump announce an order “suspending all travel from Europe” as of March 14. He was two weeks behind Israel and a week behind the other countries. He blamed Europe for the outbreak in America, essentially conceding that his ban came too late.” “The European Union failed to … restrict travel from China and other hot spots,” said Trump. “As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.” “The next morning, March 12, Trump began to rewrite history. “We closed very early with China,” he declared, referring to his Jan. 31 travel restrictions. “That helped us save thousands of lives. And we went very early with Europe.” On March 13, he repeated the new story, this time as common knowledge. “As you know,” he told reporters, “Europe was just designated as the hot spot right now, and we closed that border a while ago.” “By any definition, this was false: as Trump was speaking, the restrictions on Europe had yet to take effect.” And this was all within the first few minutes of his ½ hour interview. And in Christ, there’s no such thing as “positive thinking.” For we who believe Jesus Christ as Lord and God and King in our flesh with His Father the LORD God follow and obey Him according to the Mind and Heart and Soul of Jesus Christ whom we know in our minds and speak the Truth and His Word in Truth from our hearts by the Power of His Father’s Holy Spirit in Jesus’s name, who is the Spirit of Truth, and not our own “positive thinking” in our own visions and dreams according to self as god with deceptions and delusions and convolution and cloudiness and re-arranging and exchanging the Truth for lies or exaggerations in our minds and hearts and soul for our fantasies and glory and power and might while trying to stay “positive” when plunging into darkness, confusion and hell because of it. President Trump judges and accuses the media of “fake news” so that Americans (and the world) will only listen to him and believe whatever he says and reports as the Truth, and no one else, while the Truth is consistently and constantly being made known and revealed in opposition to him that he wants everyone to not believe and reject and judge and condemn with him for his own sake and salvation; much like a dictator or Fascist government or communist or the devil.  

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