Originally Posted by
nightmarefish
Let’s not forget Cuomo unnecessarily wiping out thousands of old people.
Also, I’m not sure a different president would have done much better shutting down. The culture of the US makes it very difficult to get agreement on anything. Think if Hillary was president, she may not have gotten everyone to agree to the initial lockdown. The Dems would have listened but the other half of the country would have told her to fuck off.
There's definitely some truth in what you're saying. But a leader that does the right thing and tries to make the case to the people to do the right thing, even if not everyone listens, is way better than a leader that encourages people to do the opposite, for his own political purposes, and promotes known bad information, and refuses to listen to science.
Cuomo screwed up but was doing was was thought to be the best thing AT THE TIME. Same goes for Obama, Fauci and others early on saying don't wear masks, it was because there was a shortage and they were trying to save them for first responders and medical personnel. The recommendations have changed over time as we've learned more, because that is the nature of science. Trump doesn't give a fuck about science and thinks he can bend reality to his whim. A good leader would be out in front of it encouraging people to shift their behavior along with the latest science.