martybegan
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Another positive and UNITING message. Too bad the Dems are the most divisive they've ever been
He can spend as much money as he wants making propaganda videos like this. But he can't run from his terrible response to the virus and the now 155K+ people dead (and counting) and the economic carnage that was a result of it. And that's what people are going to remember. He'll always have his core base of cult followers. But the rest of us who comprise the majority are going to go to the polls this November and show him and as many Republicans as possible the door. Divisive? You've just described Trump to a tee....along with cavernously incompetent.
How can you know if another way of responding would have made things better or worse? Also, our system puts most of the response and action at the State level in cases like this.
The response starts at the top. The ignoring of the pandemic potential and the playbook from the Obama administration. The NSC committee that was the frontline response to a pandemic was re-assigned, re-allocated, fired, disbanded (insert word salad here). It wasn't available when we needed it. Trump was briefed on the possibility of a pandemic as far back as early January. January 22nd, he's in Davos. Remember what he said? "We have it totally under control. It's just one person". Well, it doesn't take a mensa to figure if there's just one person, there's likely more and they're gonna spread it to more and more and so forth and so on. So, if he comes back from Davos, activates the necessary government agencies, they plan for ramping up testing, contact tracing, possible quarantining, and the allocation and distribution of federal resources. Activating fully the Defense Production Act. The President alone has the power to do these things. Then, those agencies coordinate with the states so they can activate their plans.That way, when he issues his travel ban on January 30th, (not taking effect until February 4th) the states that house the major airports that hundreds of Americans flew back into in a panic were ready to be able to evaluate all those people right at the airport. He might have done well to pay attention to ALL international travel at that point. Testing, contact tracing, quarantining. That's how it's done in a pandemic.
He does these simple steps and he not only mitigates the virus outbreak and following economic damage, he sows up his re-election before one vote is cast in the Democratic primaries.
A lot of attempting to blame, not a lot of saying what could have been done differently. Planning, talking, thinking, not a lot of doing.
And a week before the lockdowns DiBlasio and Cuomo were saying "all is well", same as most others, including Trump. But attacking them doesn't forward your narrative, so down the memory hole it goes.
Should Trump have put the Army in the streets and locked down the entire country in February? How would you have reacted to that?