Empathy? Tell that to the families of the `8,000+ that died from his virus.
American hospitals had plenty of ventilators to handle the very mild 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. People die of influenza every season. Only racist families would blame Biden and Obama if a family member died from the flu when Obama was President.
H1N1 originated in the United States about two months after Obama took office. After twenty cases were reported and before it killed anybody, Obama declared a National Health Emeregency to deal with a potential Pandemic. No one blames Obama for a failure of leadership, except TrumpOroids.
A different story is emerging on TrumpO’s handling of COVID19
He shuttered the Pandemic Crisis Team that Obama set up, claiming he was a business man and didn’t want to pay experts sitting around doing nothing.
He filmed a DNC political ad on February 26 saying he had done things that will bring the fifteen cases down to Zero in a couple of days.
He praised China in January for containing the Virus.
That February 26 Press Conference will be the political end of TrumpO if something else does not do him in, like this:
The "Trump bump" is no more
The decline on Monday marked the erasure of all gains the index made since President Donald Trump's election victory on November 8, 2016.
The Dow shed as much as 5%, or 960 points, slipping to an intraday low of 18,213.65. That marked its first foray below the close of 18,259.60 on November 7, 2016.
Here’s the Feb 26 presser. Excerpts
We were supposed to be down to zero cases now, or did you forget:
President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
February 26, 2020 6:37 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.
THE PRESIDENT: As most of you know, the — the level that we’ve had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15.
THE PRESIDENT: Of the 15 people — the “original 15,” as I call them — 8 of them have returned to their homes, to stay in their homes until fully recovered. One is in the hospital and five have fully recovered. And one is, we think, in pretty good shape and it’s in between hospital and going home.
So we have a total of — but we have a total of 15 people, and they’re in a process of recovering, with some already having fully recovered.
THE PRESIDENT: Hopefully, we’re not going to have to spend so much because we really think we’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. And again, we’ve had tremendous success — tremendous success — beyond what people would have thought.
THE PRESIDENT: And, so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people and their recovery, one is — one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover, but the others are in great shape.
THE PRESIDENT: But we’re very, very ready for this, for anything — whether it’s going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we’re — you know, we’re at that very low level, and we want to keep it that way.
So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.
THE PRESIDENT: And we have a total of 15 cases, many of which, or most — within a day, I will tell you most of whom are fully recovered. I think that’s, really, a pretty impressive mark.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I really think the stock market — of something I know a lot about — I think it took a hit maybe for two reasons. I think they look at the people that you watched debating last night and they say, if there’s even a possibility that can happen, I think it really takes a hit because of that.
THE PRESIDENT: We have the greatest — it’s the greatest tourism country in the world. So instead of leaving our country, leaving our shores, they’ll stay here.
And again, when 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.
THE PRESIDENT; I think every aspect of our society should be prepared. I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.
THE PRESIDENT; But we have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Are financial markets overreacting here?
THE PRESIDENT: I think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the Democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves. And they say, “If we ever have a President like this…”
Q So far, your administration is only testing less than 500 people. And health officials are questioning whether that’s enough, comparing to other countries who have tested more than tens of thousands of people. Are you planning to test more people?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re testing everybody that we need to test. And we’re finding very little problem. Very little problem.
THE PRESIDENT; So far, we’ve done a great job. When you have 15 people, with this whole world coming into the United States, and the 15 people are either better or close to being better, that’s pretty good.