Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I think you're missing the point.
The only way to have prevented COVID from becoming what it did in the US would have been swift action RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING regarding lockdowns, contact tracing, closed borders, etc.
Otherwise it will have spread too much to where these measures are mostly useless.
The window to do something like this was very small -- likely a matter of days. By mid-February, it was too late.
Democrats have long whined about Trump's handling of COVID -- that had they been in charge, it would have been different. I'm showing evidence that prominent Democrats were in denial that we even had a pandemic in mid-February. They were too busy focusing on their identity politicking bullshit, in this case making sure that we DON'T BLAME ASIANS!!!!111
In case you forgot the timeline and believe that nobody knew there was any danger in mid-February, again I want to remind you that I quit going to Commerce -- somewhere I had been playing regularly (and on a nice run of winning, no less) on January 27.
Somehow an ordinary poker player was able to know this was a real threat, but the incoming Biden Chief of Staff and the current mayor of NYC felt that this was all just a lot of xenophobic fear.
This should demonstrate to you that, had the Democrats been in charge instead of Trump, we would have had the same fucking result, and this whole narrative of "TRUMP KILLED 240K PEOPLE" needs to be shut down.
your logic is totally botched.
for starters, we have no idea what a democrat would have done (or even any other republican as this is not at all partisan) given the same information trump had been given.
you're very definitive on something you are 100% guessing about. it's bizarre. note, i'm not even claiming a president biden would have done better. my guess is yes cause i think trump's an actual retarded person, but who knows?
also, why doesn't it occur to you that the democrats would have criticized literally anything trump did?
like, you're going over all these things the democrats said and trying to compare it with what trump did or said.
but you're missing the point. all the democrats have been saying is that everything trump did was wrong.
i.e., no matter what trump did -- the democrats would have taken the opposite position and said he was a monster. you know, with it being an election year and him being the antichrist and all.
you're guessing about a lot. all we know is how trump handled it. most americans think he did a bad job.