Originally Posted by
duped_samaritan
It's kind of like the 'Obama paid Iran a cash ransom'. He brings it up every once in a while, everyone explains to him what happened, and he just ignores it and comes back a few weeks later making exact same claim.
I'll try again anyway:
'Trump made the bold move to stop travel from China and was highly criticized/called racist for doing it' <--- Other than stopping the travel from China, all of this is false.
He made the call after Delta, United and American announced they were cancelling all trips in and out of China. It was the right call, but an easy one and there definitely was not any outcry for him making it.
Obama did pay a cash ransom, and Iran totally owned him in that exchange. This was proof positive that he sucked at foreign policy and got repeatedly pushed around by foreign leaders. I have never ignored responses to this claim of mine. If you'd like to debate this, start a different thread and I'll be glad to discuss it further.
Regarding Trump, yes, he was roundly criticized for the China travel restrictions on January 31. Even Joe Biden criticized him. The mainstream media was full of articles and editorials accusing Trump or hysteria, racism, and xenophobia. Go look it up.
Trump did screw up the testing thing. I've said that countless times in this thread. Both Trump and the CDC screwed this up in February. There's no question that they should have gotten serious about the quick manufacture of N95 masks and ventilators.
With that said, the left is rewriting history, portraying it as if they were all taking COVID-19 super-seriously while Trump was dismissing all concerns. That's not what happened. Almost nobody in the country took COVID-19 really seriously until close to the middle of March.
Duped, were you social distancing in February? big dick, were you? sonatine, were you? (Well, in sonatine's case, were you social distancing more than you already do in normal times?)
I doubt any of you were. Credit to sonatine for stocking up on supplies before the rest of us, but I didn't see anyone in this thread urging social distancing or taking the COVID-19 threat to the US as seriously as everyone is taking it today.
Trump under-reacted, but so did everyone else.
I also sincerely doubt that a Democratic President would have done much better in February. Let's say Obama were still President. Would he have efficiently directed the quick production of masks and ventilators in February? I doubt it. When Ebola happened, he appointed a longtime Democratic operative to lead the government's response to it (LOL). The only reason nobody talks about that is because Ebola doesn't transmit easily, so the situation fixed itself. Obama also couldn't handle getting a simple website up and running for our healthcare, wasting $560 million on simple site which didn't work, and then refused to fire the woman responsible for the entire debacle. Anyone with faith in Democratic leaders handling this well is delusional.