Trump downplayed the virus. He even said so-he did not want people to panic. Americans are adults. People do not like to be not told the truth by politicians. This is what killed his reelection.
If Trump had told the truth he would have been reelected even if he mishandled the virus.
I knew it was bullsh*t when he said the virus was going to nothing when China was welding shut apartment doors
That was my initial reaction as well after watching the drastic steps that China took. Or that they said that they took.
Almost a year later, with the USA not bull-dozing interstates, blockades at each city, welding of apartment doors shut, fogging anti-septics of entire blocks based on the images coming out of China ... we still have not seen people dropping dead in their tracks as depicted in China.
Covid-19 IS real, it is bad for many people. But it isn’t as bad as China (or the Democrats) say that it is.