This is an opinion column.
At the very least, there should be a plan.
We fight a lot over who should be in charge. We give a significant portion of our incomes so the people in charge may have the best information to work with and superior resources at their disposal.
For everything we put into this country, as taxpayers and as citizens, there should be a plan.
Where is the plan?
The president of the United States retweets a game show host who says doctors, the media and others are lying about the coronavirus to hurt Trump’s reelection chances. Meanwhile, White House staff release an opposition research report to undermine Dr. Anthony Fauci, maybe the only trusted voice the administration has left. The president retweets claims that the CDC is lying about the dangers of reopening schools. His administration runs public service announcements telling the unemployed to “find something new,” and Thursday, as the country hit another high for new daily cases, Trump went on a bizarre rant about water pressure and eco-friendly showerheads.
This man has no plan.
OK. Alabama, what have you got left?
An internal White House report says Alabama is one of 18 “red zone” states that should enact more stringent mitigation measures, including closing bars, gyms and other indoor venues, but Alabama still can’t decide whether masks are a good idea.
Gov. Kay says there’s no point in a statewide mask ordinance since so many people have disregarded previous mandates. Then she issues a statewide order and says it’s unenforceable at the same time. The pro tem of the Alabama Senate — who previously proposed spending federal coronavirus relief funds to build a new Alabama State House — says he hopes more people, not fewer, catch the coronavirus so we can achieve herd immunity, an idea experts and even Mississippi’s governor says is impossible without a vaccine. All while our state school board tells local systems they’re on their own.
This is not a response to the coronavirus. It’s surrender. It’s an abdication of leadership and an admission of what has been obvious for a long time.
There is no plan.
There never was a plan.
And most of our elected officials are incapable of making a plan to deal with the coronavirus.
At the root of the problem is simple: The people in charge cannot tell the difference between a plan and a goal.
The president can’t. Neither can officials who support him, not our elected leaders here in Alabama nor any in other states.
Reopening the economy is a goal. Not a plan.
Reopening schools is a goal. Not a plan.
Everyone shares these goals. Who doesn’t want to reopen the economy? Who doesn’t want to reopen schools? But only some understand there are steps we must take to reach them.
To reopen the economy, we needed cheap, quick, ubiquitous testing, public health experts told us months ago. We needed an army of contact tracers, too. We needed citizens willing to isolate themselves when potentially a danger to others. And we needed a public willing to wear masks and social distance.
We didn’t come through with any of that.
To reopen schools, we needed science to tell us the risks related to children. We needed school systems to put in place protocols. We needed the state and federal government to give schools the extra resources they needed for nurses and additional support staff.
Still waiting on all that, too.
Like a fussy toddler who wants dessert before dinner, the president has issued mandates in all-caps on Twitter. Anyone who questions whether we’re ready to REOPEN THE ECONOMY NOW or to REOPEN SCHOOLS OR WE’LL PULL YOUR FEDERAL FUNDING is labeled a lockdown lover who wants America to fail.
So much winning, we were promised. Where is it?
In Alabama, every political discussion regresses to football analogies, so let’s imagine if Nick Saban coached the same way.
PLAY FOOTBALL! WIN CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
As Saban has preached, there’s the fabled Process. You don’t win championships by thinking about championships. You win by doing the work to get there. You win by discipline. You win by keeping focused.
You win by having a plan.
But the way we’re going, we won’t even have a football season.
There is no plan and there is no winning.
Only so much loss.
Kyle Whitmire is the state political columnist for the Alabama Media Group.
You can follow his work on his Facebook page, The War on Dumb. And on Twitter. And on Instagram.
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