What I believe is that Birx, Fauci and Bozo the Modeler duped Trump at the outset with that bogus model showing 2+ million dead.
Can I blame Trump for that? Not really. I can look at it and call BS with no real repercussions. In his situation the repercussions of whatever he decides are YUGE. Me made his call based on the off chance that they were right.
What I blame him for now is letting doctors slow-roll the reopening AND for not disciplining Fauci for, in my view, pretty brazenly undermining him on multiple occasions.
You really think it was the “model” that got him spooked?
My guess it was the 40 industrial furnaces in Wuhan, plus the sat images of truckloads of bodies lined up in front of them, that probably spooked him.
I think you give Fauci too much credit.
Trump was mumble mouthed about the whole thing from the start. I remember him saying, “Everyone who needs to be tested is being tested” in the first presser. If that was the information he was getting from Fauci, they both should be fired.
Trump has dug himself into such a hole with his ego, he better be praying that this re-opening is successful.