There is some truth in that. Trump spent four years attacking absolutely anyone or anything that didn’t follow his script. That includes a vast amount of people working in government who aren’t decision makers and who have very strict rules and standards to follow... And who would be drummed out of of their professions if they acted the way Trump wants them to.
I spent years working in pharma research. The reason it takes years to get a drug licensed is because, before the unregulated snake oil and tragedies like Thalidomide compelled the industry to test, test, test. It is now too over regulated, a billion dollars can be spent developing a drug that ends up more expensive or less effective than another. Care home workers and ERs can’t be bothered with politics when they’re trying to find a treatment that works in a sudden pandemic situation when people are dropping like flies.
Trump was well within his rights to say COVID is overrated and probably released by China. He’s right to hate lockdowns too.
But he could’ve solved this by federally funding the research into COVID, and acknowledging that every other country in the free world was ready to pay trillions of dollars for a working vaccine... To any country that got there first.
Trump could easily have been a national hero over COVID by supporting R&D and marketing an American fix that eliminated any talk of lock down.
But not only did he oppose all that, he is now crowing about how a successful vaccine that was developed in Germany with ZERO input from his administration because he publicly refused to even write a small check wa his success... AND he argues the vaccine was delayed purely to spite him.
The UK has its own vaccine coming out shortly. Where is America’s?
Ask Trump. His unnecessary war on pharma over his fixation on who created COVID is the reason America will end up buying it from Britain, Germany OR even China.
You don’t have to be left wing to think Trump handled COVID in a way that belies his reputation as a great deal maker. Any half sane business brain would’ve seen a trillion dollar win on the table in March, Trump’s reaction was to call the opportunity FAKE NEWS.
You really think we should buy a vaccine from any of those countries right now?
Moderna was federally funded in part. Operation Warp Speed is going well since it began last April.
Freezers around the country are being filled with vaccine.
Flights from Belgium are arriving as planned.
looks to me like things are going well now.
I agree with you for the most part. It is not overrated, however.