Let’s clarify that poster… “Covid didn’t crush the economy, Democrats intentionally crushed the economy”.
There… Fixed it
The GOP went along with it. Served their best interst in the CCP.
They didn’t do it on their own.
There were RINOs like my own Ohio governor Mike DeWine who shut down much of Ohio’s economy for far too long.
Also remember that there was a Republican administration in place when the shutdown began.
Trump had some bad advisors, but they supposedly were Republicans.
All of this crap never should have happened.
The quarantines, the vaccine fast track, the school closures, never should have happened.
Unfortunately, the human thing to do when confronted by a force of nature that endangers people (virus) is to think that something needs to be done. And there is always someone ready to tell a leader that know what that thing is.
Also, unfortunately unless you can get out of the way of that force, you are usually better off doing nothing and letting nature take its course.