Bandy Lee is a psychiatrist at Yale University and a violence expert. In her brief Twitter-bio, she describes herself as "Violence expert and forensic psychiatrist of 20 years, uninvolved in politics until politics invaded her area of expertise."
Six years go, two years before there was a thought of Trump in the White House, she had done a research study of violence. She decided to bring it to more public attention on Sunday because she saw a comment from one of her social media followers about how a Democratic president would have responded to the coronavirus crisis differently than the Republican in office. Unlike other people who may have had the same random thought, Dr. Lee had had the expertise to check it out. In her response yesterday, she gave a cursory overview of the results in a series of tweets. I selected a few, and will let her speak for herself, since she does it so much better. And to repeat, this was not done as a way to condemn Trump, since it was completed two years before he took office. What it does, though, is confirm the legendary adage by historian George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." You can find the full study here.
For those here who don't want to read the full research study -- which I'm going to guess is pretty much everyone -- this is the opening Abstract introduction to the paper, with its summary of Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion. I don't expect many (as in perhaps any) to read through all of even the Abstract, but I include it here so that you can at least see the foundation of what Dr. Lee was seriously dealing with. ABSTRACT
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