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Two months and several debates (?) away...
Matt Walsh will find a way to suck back up to Trump again. But he’s not wrong. And tonight a lot of finger pointing is taking place in the White House as to who the stable jenius is that let him sit down for the interview.😂Trump the Chump.
The thing is, I can understand downplaying the virus to allay fears, stop panic buying etc, and as you say most leaders did the same - but the way Trump downplayed the seriousness of it all was a foolish mistake. For example there was no reason to not publicly wear a mask and endorse the use of masks until it was far to late. (WHO should take a lot of he blame for this also for their dishonesty.) I don't really agree with your second point though - the US has done pretty well in terms of their mortality rate and a lot of that is due to the Federal government producing ventilators and supplying facilities / space for Blue states, namely New York. So I don't think there was a plot by any means to make anyone look bad - more that Trump has tried to escape from looking bad himself.Almost every world leaders were downplaying the severity of the virus initially. Beating him with that stick is an easy out for his cult. Beat him for being one of the few idiots that doubled down on downplaying the severity when it became clear that the pandemic was not going away. Competent leaders used the time bought by downplaying the virus in public to build up infrastructure to handle an increase in expected number of hospitalization. Your president used the time bought to plot to harm citizens in blue states because it would make blue state leaders look bad.
What are you smoking? New York was crying for more help early on in the pandemic that was met with states should buy their own medical supplies. The federal government encouraged states to compete with each other to stock up on emergency supplies and seized them from some states when they did as told.The thing is, I can understand downplaying the virus to allay fears, stop panic buying etc, and as you say most leaders did the same - but the way Trump downplayed the seriousness of it all was a foolish mistake. For example there was no reason to not publicly wear a mask and endorse the use of masks until it was far to late. (WHO should take a lot of he blame for this also for their dishonesty.) I don't really agree with your second point though - the US has done pretty well in terms of their mortality rate and a lot of that is due to the Federal government producing ventilators and supplying facilities / space for Blue states, namely New York. So I don't think there was a plot by any means to make anyone look bad - more that Trump has tried to escape from looking bad himself.
He didn't stop flights from China. He stopped Chinese citizens from entering China. I'll give you that he did stop travel to and fro Europe. However he messed up the announcement too because he can't even read a prompter correctly, leading to confusion in the initial few hours. It wasn't a mistake in hindsight to allow states to make their own rules. It was deliberate to let the blue states or states with democratic governors suffer so his political opponents look bad in handling the crisis. Almost like the idiots in charge didn't know virus don't care about man-made borders and can travel from state to state without a uniform policy.It's strange really because in many ways he took strong decisive action, for example stopping flights from China and then later Europe actually bought the US several extra weeks to start preparing it's response, and then the countries hospitals were generally pretty well prepared to combat the virus. However overall his response has to be considered weak. He basically avoided a coordinated policy to stop the virus' spread in favour of allowing the governors to make their own policies. In hindsight that was a mistake. It allows Trump and his most hardline supporters to say that any huge issues in a state, such as a New York was not his fault and that it's due to the Governors' response. That is true to an extent and Governors, especially those who ignored advice such as Florida, or who led a terrible disjointed response such as New York, should not escape blame for their mistakes - but ultimately the buck lies with the President and the lack of a coordinated response to the pandemic.
China locked the fk down on Wuhan man. No other countries or cities went to that drastic a measure. Between that or simply wearing a cloth mask when interacting with people not living with me to slow the spread of the virus, the choice is simple.I don't think it really matters (other than for the election of course) in that this virus is unstoppable. I lived in China when the pandemic first started and was their until February. They are the only country (except some isolated islands) that could deal with this virus and totally eliminate it. Even then they are probably lying because the CCP lie about everything. Our countries citizenry are not compliant enough to stop the virus' spread and our governments are too unwilling to implement the totalitarian policies necessary to stop the spread. I am ok with that. Even countries like Spain which saw some of the most severe lockdowns, now is doing really badly once again. Until there is a vaccine we just need to accept the situation as serious as it is.