Foxfyre goes full retard. never go full retard.
Except that he didn't do the prudent thing. We knew that this virus was an issue in December 2020. Trump called it a hoax. He said it would clear up by Easter. He threw out the Pandemic Response plan, disbanded the pandemic response team, and closed the branch office of the CDC in Beijing.
Except that isn't what Trump did. Trump downplayed the virus because he didn't want to upset the stock market. In short, he was willing to put Americans at risk to protect the interests of rich people.
Here's whom Trump didn't want to panic.
slate.com
On Wednesday, Bob Woodward released audio excerpts of interviews with Donald Trump in which the president said he knew how much deadlier COVID-19 is than the flu, even as he was declaring the opposite in public.
The truth is not that Trump sought to avoid creating a panic among the American people but that he actively downplayed the virus in an effort to avoid panicking the stock market, which he viewed as inextricably tied to his electoral fortunes. It was fine if the American people got sick and died, as long as the public awareness of the threat didn’t rise to a level that would rattle the markets.
Okay, the problem with the "Hospital Ships" is that they weren't set up for Covid Patients. This is why no hospital was willing to risk a huge malpractice lawsuit by sending patient there.
Again, none of this would have been necessary had he taken appropriate actions in January and February to prepare.
Um, no, Trump Bungled it in every way imaginable, compared to other G7 nations which took it seriously early on.
Canada only had 55K Covid deaths compared to our one million. Japan only had 74,000 deaths, and despite that low number, the Japanese PM STILL felt obligated to resign.