I agree, but what else could he do? He tried to put the best spin on it that he could. The dems whipped up the panic with the media. Even rational people bought into it. They would have blamed 2 million deaths on him if he fought it. And we would have ended up with mayor pete in 2020.
This is a tough one. On the one hand it's been disappointing watching Trump even acknowledge that this is some kind of "hidden enemy" and not a colossal fuckup. On the other hand Trump is working to win over the middle of the country who is still plugged into the MSM and has to engage with those people.
Additionally, it's hard to say how much was known when. There was a lot of uncertainty back in February and honest information was hard to find.
His hands were pretty tied. If he didn’t double down on it, the world would still shut down and he’d be called a mass murderer. It was a battle he couldn’t get around, so he instead decided to fight it better than they could have imagined by closing the borders immediately, etc.
So was everybody. But it was somewhat justified, given what we knew and didn't knew back then. Trump covered for the case that it's an unstoppable Chinese bio-weapon. Orban (Hungary's PM) closed their borders quickly too.
And if it were an actually lethal virus, they'd be among those who did best to mitigate and fight it. Regardless of that they delayed the spread by weeks, yielding more time for more information to come in. As of today it long turned ideological and political, so the virus is no longer about merely doing the right thing in a pragmatic way, but about political back and forth. We are on the correct side, leftists, as always, toy with their fantasy, fearmongering and attempts to destroy the economy to make political advancements.
It's sad however to see to what degree our governments world-wide can turn authoritarian on a whim. If anything, the virus was very revealing in that regard. Also remember that the US is very decentralized, so a lot of decision making was not up to Trump in the first place.
I too believed that the virus is way more lethal. With new information I changed my mind, and now I am way more radical about lifting any lockdowns and any other mandates than everyone else - because it does not make sense, and didn't do previously either.
Maybe i'm going to be the odd man out but we have 2000 brand new M1 tanks sitting in a desert doing absolutely nothing. 2000 is outside of the ones in service, in repair and being modified/updated. I'd rather spend a billion on Americans than buying more tanks we have no use for.
I say spend more money on weapons of war that we don't use. We don't want to ever have to use them, but we need enemies of America to be terrified at the prospect that we WILL use them if necessary.
This happens when you have unbridled panic stoked by the media which is not based on actual facts.
Wasn't just the media...
True, they started it and then the Democrats and 'health experts' joined in.
Our president was part of it too. Sad to say.
I agree, but what else could he do? He tried to put the best spin on it that he could. The dems whipped up the panic with the media. Even rational people bought into it. They would have blamed 2 million deaths on him if he fought it. And we would have ended up with mayor pete in 2020.
This is a tough one. On the one hand it's been disappointing watching Trump even acknowledge that this is some kind of "hidden enemy" and not a colossal fuckup. On the other hand Trump is working to win over the middle of the country who is still plugged into the MSM and has to engage with those people.
Additionally, it's hard to say how much was known when. There was a lot of uncertainty back in February and honest information was hard to find.
His hands were pretty tied. If he didn’t double down on it, the world would still shut down and he’d be called a mass murderer. It was a battle he couldn’t get around, so he instead decided to fight it better than they could have imagined by closing the borders immediately, etc.
So was everybody. But it was somewhat justified, given what we knew and didn't knew back then. Trump covered for the case that it's an unstoppable Chinese bio-weapon. Orban (Hungary's PM) closed their borders quickly too.
And if it were an actually lethal virus, they'd be among those who did best to mitigate and fight it. Regardless of that they delayed the spread by weeks, yielding more time for more information to come in. As of today it long turned ideological and political, so the virus is no longer about merely doing the right thing in a pragmatic way, but about political back and forth. We are on the correct side, leftists, as always, toy with their fantasy, fearmongering and attempts to destroy the economy to make political advancements.
It's sad however to see to what degree our governments world-wide can turn authoritarian on a whim. If anything, the virus was very revealing in that regard. Also remember that the US is very decentralized, so a lot of decision making was not up to Trump in the first place.
I too believed that the virus is way more lethal. With new information I changed my mind, and now I am way more radical about lifting any lockdowns and any other mandates than everyone else - because it does not make sense, and didn't do previously either.
This was money laundering for big pharma if anything.. same thing with mass testing and remdesivir.
All government is money laundering.
Change my mind.
Maybe i'm going to be the odd man out but we have 2000 brand new M1 tanks sitting in a desert doing absolutely nothing. 2000 is outside of the ones in service, in repair and being modified/updated. I'd rather spend a billion on Americans than buying more tanks we have no use for.
I say spend more money on weapons of war that we don't use. We don't want to ever have to use them, but we need enemies of America to be terrified at the prospect that we WILL use them if necessary.