We haven't had a leader who could get people to blindly do what he
said since Eisenhower and JFK. By the time of LBJ, a significant part
of the population, mostly young people, said "you are not the boss of
me" and that still prevails. If you look at where the spike in
infections really is, you see the 40 crowd. In spite of the spike in
infections in Florida the death rate is down and the number of
hospitalizations is down. Less than a quarter of the people in the Lee
hospital system (our biggest conglomerate) are there for Covid.
The hype greatly exceeds the reality. What seems to be happening is we
are building the herd immunity in the millennials and younger the old
fashioned way. They get it, they get over it and they move on. Just
don't kiss your grand daughter if you are worried about it.
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True leadership requires laying out a well reasoned plan of action
that people believe in, and will follow willingly.
What percentage of the population have to be true believers and lemmings, to
qualify true leadership? Our country is too diverse to reach consensus on
most any topic. Which God like human could ever do what you say. Ronald
Reagan was the last American to come even close.