Actions and dates.
What’s been fascinating since March 15th, liberals are critical of Trump, but they refuse to say what should have been done.
Seems a bit disingenuous.
WHAT SHOULD TRUMP HAVE DONE? Actions and dates.
Lay it out for us.
Well first of all I think that Trump should have been a leader- rather than a reactionary.
Before the Coronavirus emerged- Trump should have been preparing for the pandemic that he and his administration had been warned was a likelihood.
a) Trump shouldn't have eliminated the public health position of an American epidemiologist in China's disease control agency and other CDC positions embedded in China(about 33 positions were eliminated within China)
b) Trump shouldn't have eliminated the pandemic response team.
c) Trump's CDC should have had a good protocol for developing tests for new diseases
d) Trump's administration should have ensured that the stockpiled ventilators were maintained- failure to keep them maintained resulted in thousands of non-working ventilators sent out to states.
Once the United States became aware of the coronavirus Trump's failures continued:
a) The Trump administration chose to not use the test protocols developed by other countries- South Korea had a reliable test by February 12- the United States relied upon Trump's CDC to develop and ship out tests.
b) The Trump administration shouldn't have shipped out defective tests.
c) The Trump administration should have ramped up the manufacture and distribution of reliable tests- rather than falsely claiming that they were available. We are still short of testing.
d) Trump should have taken the lead in warning the American public about how serious the coronavirus was- and recommending voluntary social distancing.
e) Trump should have been a leader by example- and not continued with public gatherings/campaign events even after scientific and medical experts were calling for social distancing.
f) Trump should not have repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic:
January: Trump says at a news conference that the US has coronavirus "totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine."
February: "[W]hen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."
February 24: He tweets that the virus "is very much under control in the United States"
g) Trump should have taken the lead in procurement of PPE and ventilators back in February.
h) Trump should have used the month of February to better prepare the United States for the pandemic. Instead he took virtually no actions from his partial ban on travel from China at the end of January until the shipment of defective tests in late February.
i) Trump shouldn't have promoted unproven treatments which his own medical advisors were not recommending.
Well thats a good start- you will of course disagree with it all- but thanks for giving me an opportunity to point out again what a dismal failure Trump has been as a leader in this crisis.
