Accountability comes with the job. You can explain it away all you like.
I don’t listen to him for medical advice. That’s not his job.
The Federal government has no Constitutional power to control medical practice. Had we real Federalism, these problems would have been exposed far sooner.
And what was he going to do tell a booing nation what to do? He did. They didn’t listen.
Oh yes they did, and what they heard is that he wasn't competent to assess the technical facts. That may not be fair, but it was what the public was expecting.
The people I know who did not get the shot listen to him. They all trust him. The ones who did get it, hate him. All of them. They don’t listen to him.
I didn't get the jab because I knew better. I also knew masks were counterproductive. Neither was a matter of trust; both were matters of data, not trust. Didier Raoult's early data were all Trump needed to know the multidrug treatment worked because Raoult did actual counts of viral particles with a SEM. The inefficacy of masking was proven early on with particle counts by clean room engineers at Waterloo University and with field trials at Camp Pendleton.
Trump didn't know enough to know he was being sold a line of crap. He made the decision to let the EUA go while taking credit for Warp Speed. It's on him because he accepted that the public are accustomed to the Feds wielding those unconstitutional powers. He could have denied the EUA. He could have listened to the doctors behind the Great Barrington Declaration. He didn't. His technical judgment (for which he is accountable however illegitimately) is not trustworthy. It may not be reasonable to expect it, but your BS can't change the facts.
“ Accountability comes with the job. You can explain it away all you likE”
On this forum especially we learned to read between the lines. We all knew his hands were tied. They impeached him twice then they stole the White House
The NIH, The CDC, the FDA and all the corporations stepping in front of him, taking HCQ off the market, taking ivermectin off the market he had control over that?
Nope
We heard him loud and clear
My skepticism increased when I went to the CDC site to research masks. There was a lot of wearing a mask is good because ... we say it’s good, go to this page that says it’s good because ...
The first time I went, after digging deep into their site, they had a number of studies that showed masks caught droplets. Nothing about reducing the chance of catching Covid or lessening its severity.
The second time I went, months later, same thing. Masks catch droplets, nothing about whether this helped. And still nothing about the downside of masks - bacteria and reduced social interaction.
Months later, I went again. More on catching droplets. And one (one!) study with a weak conclusion masks might help.
The deadliest disease in the history of the world and they can’t do a study that definitively addresses the efficacy of masks. Five years later, I still haven’t seen such a study
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I waited a few months to see a specialist about a medical issue. I remember going back to my car after deciding to humor them if they were still requiring masks. To my surprise, not only were they requiring masks, but patients had to wear one of theirs. The cheap Chinese blue ones.
I refused to do so. A manager came out and made a token effort to convince me. I left without being seen. They never followed up to try to work something out.