Let’s put aside the issue of blame on Trump for the spread of COVID and focus on his general reaction to it
Let's put aside the issue of blame on Trump for the spread of Covid and focus on the general blame of Trump for the spread of Covid?
Let's get a few facts straight here:
- NO MATTER WHAT, no matter how things would go, the Left would still blame Trump and find a way to try to blame Trump for everything.
- Viruses blow around in the air. They get carried by touch and human contact. Short of locking every single person in the country into their own ziplock bag for two weeks and becoming the gestapo dictator the Left already thinks he is, there is nothing much any president can really do short of what Trump already did: close the USA to countries like China and try to keep it away from here for as long as possible.
- Presidents are largely PR people in situations like this: they get up before a mic and field questions from hostile reporters. The real work goes on behind the scenes by whatever team of experts he assigns.
- Trump wanted a unified response to Covid because this is not only a HEALTH issue but an ECONOMIC one, but the Democratic states all demanded their own personal control and are IGNORING the economic side of the equation and doing a damn poor job at handling the health side as well, judging by the deaths. After this is all over, watch all these same governors demand help to deal with the economic damage they helped create.
- The one thing clear about the spread of Covid is that there is no simple solution to it. Where it has hit hardest seems partly due to population density, perhaps also partly due to response strategy, but also clearly due to other intangibles, such as the particular strain of Covid in that region as well as the people of that region themselves: their culture, general health, cleanliness, diet, previous resistance, and other possible factors that we will no doubt be discovering and analyzing for years to come.
Bottom line: the segment of the population hardest and most hit has been the very elderly locked away inside buildings in nursing homes. The virus didn't blow through the walls, so it must have been carried to them by those they are in contact with giving evidence that not only is the virus likely far more prevalent than we previously admitted (everyone already has it), but giving real rise to questions about the general preparedness of this country and others to ever really deal with any crisis despite decades of research, government agencies, expert think-tanks and billions invested.