Politicallyinsane
Gold Member
- Oct 6, 2019
- 254
- 211
- 195
- Banned
- #1
Trump supporters: are you satisfied with Trump's COVID response?
I'm genuinely curious and would like to hear arguments you might have as to why you think Trump is handling it well, assuming you do think that. I think he's handled it woefully (as in, COVID is Trump's Katrina moment), and I find it genuinely hard to see a rational argument otherwise. What's the case for it?
• He received his first COVID briefing in early January.
• He spent the next 60-70 days downplaying it.
• He called concerns about a widespread problem here a Democratic hoax
• He kept saying it's like the flu
• He kept saying it'll go away in April when it gets warmer
• He kept saying it's 15 people and will soon be down to 0
• He kept saying it'll magically disappear
• He praised China's cooperation and transparency, which is exactly what he's now attacking the WHO for doing.
• When he finally got around to announcing the Europe travel ban weeks after his public health advisors urged it, he botched the Oval Office announcement so badly that thousands of panicked Americans rushed to airports in huge crowds to frantically buy tickets to get home, and the White House had to spend days backtracking and cleaning up the mess.
• He kept (and continues to) promote an untested, experimental cure, telling people "take it, what do you have to lose", even as the CIA warned employees against taking it because it could kill them.
• Now he's withholding WHO funding in the middle of a global pandemic.
I'm trying to be objective, but how does he look anything other than way out of his depth here? I get he has to have a boogeyman to blame so that's why he's going after the WHO, but "we weren't prepared because I got played the fool by China" is a pretty awful re-election argument.
I'm genuinely curious and would like to hear arguments you might have as to why you think Trump is handling it well, assuming you do think that. I think he's handled it woefully (as in, COVID is Trump's Katrina moment), and I find it genuinely hard to see a rational argument otherwise. What's the case for it?
• He received his first COVID briefing in early January.
• He spent the next 60-70 days downplaying it.
• He called concerns about a widespread problem here a Democratic hoax
• He kept saying it's like the flu
• He kept saying it'll go away in April when it gets warmer
• He kept saying it's 15 people and will soon be down to 0
• He kept saying it'll magically disappear
• He praised China's cooperation and transparency, which is exactly what he's now attacking the WHO for doing.
• When he finally got around to announcing the Europe travel ban weeks after his public health advisors urged it, he botched the Oval Office announcement so badly that thousands of panicked Americans rushed to airports in huge crowds to frantically buy tickets to get home, and the White House had to spend days backtracking and cleaning up the mess.
• He kept (and continues to) promote an untested, experimental cure, telling people "take it, what do you have to lose", even as the CIA warned employees against taking it because it could kill them.
• Now he's withholding WHO funding in the middle of a global pandemic.
I'm trying to be objective, but how does he look anything other than way out of his depth here? I get he has to have a boogeyman to blame so that's why he's going after the WHO, but "we weren't prepared because I got played the fool by China" is a pretty awful re-election argument.