It’s easy to say Trump should have done more. I’ve said it many times. Then I remember how the blue state governors responded and then I cut Trump a little slack.
If he didn’t want lockdowns why did he jump all over Kemp and DeSantis for unlocking their states “too early?”
Well said. Jan 3, 2020 the odds were high that SARS NOVEL would be a worldwide pandemic targeting the elderly. By Mar it was obvious it targeted the elderly and the Obese.
The NIH of Fauci and the CDC were in the middle of a decades long turf war. Both were more interested in budget (#1) and Ego (#2) than Public Health. They were busy working on proposals to enhance their budget and power over the other branch of government using SAR NOVEL... like Putin uses Belarus.
Trump, any president, was in a difficult position. Taking sides in a bureaucratic turf war is not the way to acomplish anything in the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy will even further unite against the unwanted interloper.
Trump was a lone voice. Yes, now everyone is talking about “cures” but Trump was the only one pushing g Hydroxy and a bunch of other drugs and he was the one saying we should be back by resurrection Sunday. I guess I’m the only one who remembers the responses to that (both left and right). I wish he said, screw what everyone else is saying, I’m the President, don’t my way. Realistically that is asking a lot of him. Remember the daily death toll counters? Pretending Desanctimonius would have said screw what everyone else says do it my way is a joke. He backed off his Ukraine position with very little push back. Desanctimonius also, on live TV, got a 100 year old veteran to take the Vaccine...I wish Trump did better, I’m hard pressed to think of ANYONE in government who would have done better.
They will scream regardless might as well let um whale