The fruits of Ignorance, Reply to NYT Opinion

Neither ego nor gender are the primary culprits to America's slaughter by the cornavirus, but they contributed, second hand side effects. The great killer of Americans, as in all of history, is IGNORANCE. Ignorance of how to use the cultures stored knowledge, the knowledge in the books, sure, but more importantly, the knowledge in the minds of disciplined scholars. Trump and the Republicans already "know everything". Knowing everything means you can no longer remove pieces of your ignorance, can no longer push back the dark walls of ignorance that surround the little we have in minds. This egoistic ignorance stultifies learning, curiosity, new ideas, and advice from the experts who have spent a lifetime preparing to meet the enemy and apply their understanding, add to their knowledge. Who face only the small unknown from the new challenge, with no need to tackle the whole discipline, now. Ignorance, isn't just not knowing, Wisdom is mainly knowing how to learn, how to probe, how to apply the resources of the entire civilization. The Republican leadership, especially Trump, simply was ill equipped to do this simple task: Find out who knows, in this case, about pandemics, viruses in general, fighting them in particular, save the lives of the cooks, carpenters, scholars, the taxi drivers, athletes, friends and foes, AMERICANS, HUMANS. We remember the Harvard President before the Senate in the 1950's who replied to a question,"You think education is expensive? Try ignorance."