Ducey is NOT "Our Leader," he is as much THE problem as Trump is

How many people in Arizona media today are hearkening back to decisions made by Double Talk Doug Ducey just a month ago regarding Arizona state government's response to the Covid19 pandemic? Well, the Washington Post did.  Ducey, very simply and plainly stated, tripped over his own dick.

It is already a given that the executive in charge of the American federal government has made gross errors of judgment, preventable and foreseen, on this subject.

Isn't it time for corporate media, including the Arizona Republic and broadcast news outlets with respectable, professional, capable journalists to call it like it is... and like it has been understood and known for more than a month?

Foolish local media for far too long have referred to Ducey as "Our Leader," or some variation on that theme. This situation is far more egregious, with dire consequences than a simple mistake. LIVES OF ARIZONANS have been jeopardized and far too many lost because of Ducey's gross errors in judgment regarding public health and safety.

It is NOT a given that a state's governor must be bowed down to, revered, or otherwise respected. He does not get free reign to put the lives of citizens at risk, especially when it has been so blatantly obvious that his decisions were made out of fear (of Trump, Glenn Hamer, and armed thugs) rather than out of care and concern for the well-being of the people of Arizona.

On May 6, the Arizona Eagletarian posted that our state's (NOT LEADER, but weak follower) governor had succumbed to the political pressure from armed right-wing protesters,

However, it seems ... reasonable to infer that the wingnuts (who have been showing up at state capitols across the nation to intimidate governors) are getting their wish granted by McDucey.

As reported in the Arizona Republic:

On Wednesday, Sinema tweeted in support of continued social distancing: "To reopen strong, we must be safe and smart. For now, that means continuing to social distance and stay home — as well as increasing testing and infection-tracking."

Arizona State University will continue to provide COVID-19 models to the public despite instructions from the Arizona Department of Health Services to "pause" the work, the university confirmed.

A tweet from U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Wednesday afternoon said that she was grateful the work would continue.

Sinema said the decision to "disregard the science that should be the basis of Arizona public health policies — and the White House's guidelines for re-opening — is concerning and disappointing." [...]

In late April, Tim Lant, a mathematical epidemiologist at ASU, said the model showed five different scenarios for how the disease could progress in Arizona, depending on how social distancing efforts were relaxed.

The slowest curve, based on if the state reopens at the end of May, is “the only one that doesn't put me immediately back on an exponential growth curve,” Lant said in April. That’s because transmission rates would be lowest at that time, he said.

“I can say, scientifically, no, it's not safe to reopen unless you're planning on, you know, shutting down again after a couple of weeks, and we can help figure out what the appropriate amount of time is to stay open before we shut down,” he said.

Beside the fact that multiple local news enterprises reported this at the time, which of them are calling out the governor now and pointing to his gross failure of imagination that has, as the Washington Post just today reported, with local Arizona Mirror associate editor Jeremy Duda sharing the byline, "How Arizona 'lost control of the epidemic.'"

Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, is recording as many as 2,000 cases a day, “eclipsing the New York City boroughs even on their worst days,” warned a Wednesday brief by disease trackers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which observed, “Arizona has lost control of the epidemic.”

But physicians, public health experts, advocates and local officials say the crisis was predictable in Arizona, where local ordinances requiring masks were forbidden until Gov. Doug Ducey (R) reversed course last week. State leaders did not take the necessary precautions or model safe behavior, these observers maintain, even in the face of compelling evidence and repeated pleas from authoritative voices.

“We have failed on so many levels,” said Dana Marie Kennedy, the Arizona director of AARP, who said her organization has yet to receive a response to four letters outlining concerns to the governor. She is working on a fifth.

Neither the governor’s office nor the state health department responded to requests for comment.

Is it any wonder the Ducey administration refused to respond to inquiries? Sure, he held a press conference this afternoon, but he controlled that. WaPo was calling him out, for what fictional National Security Advisor Saul Berenson (Showtime's Homeland) would characterize as "tripping over his dick."

From the Urban Dictionary,

When you have done something exceptionally stupid causing you to have no progress toward resolution when attempting to solve a problem.

Is it not time for Arizona voices throughout the state to tell Doug Ducey, ENOUGH? Shouldn't he resign his office already?