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.
The number we have today is probably 2x inflated since the Cares Act made incentives to code ANY case as Covid after mandating hospitals not take elective procedures.
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.
I think Trump played it perfectly. They tried to convince him to act over the top in his response but he decided to leave the decision making up to the states and provide reasonable federal assistance as needed. The Governors of the states caved to the media pressure without any push back. IMO, the media (DNC) was gearing up to flip the narrative and make Trump look like a dictator/bad leader when the dust finally settled. Since Trump didn't bite, the media/bad actors are now scrambling to double down on the original narrative that they were planning on gas lighting. While theres multiple agendas flowing through coronavirus.....this was no doubt the main agenda of the media (DNC). It's obvious to see when viewed in hindsight. Their focus has always been on Trump throughout all of this.
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.
He also let them make any stupid request and would consistently over-deliver just to shut them up. Look at the ventilators. Now we are shipping ventilators around the world because Trump got all the ventilators Democrats could ask for. Pretty hard to push their “not enough ventilators!” talking point when we are literally giving ventilators away now because we have too many.
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.
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.
The 2M model is utter bullshit.
The number we have today is probably 2x inflated since the Cares Act made incentives to code ANY case as Covid after mandating hospitals not take elective procedures.
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.
I think Trump played it perfectly. They tried to convince him to act over the top in his response but he decided to leave the decision making up to the states and provide reasonable federal assistance as needed. The Governors of the states caved to the media pressure without any push back. IMO, the media (DNC) was gearing up to flip the narrative and make Trump look like a dictator/bad leader when the dust finally settled. Since Trump didn't bite, the media/bad actors are now scrambling to double down on the original narrative that they were planning on gas lighting. While theres multiple agendas flowing through coronavirus.....this was no doubt the main agenda of the media (DNC). It's obvious to see when viewed in hindsight. Their focus has always been on Trump throughout all of this.
I think the "Hidden Enemy" Trump was talking about is being revealed in all of the transcripts that are now being released.
Unfortunately, Pravda will never report on the details of these transcripts.
This.
The "plandemic" was designed to destroy Trump.
He was supposed to OPPOSE the coronavirus narrative. ("TRUMP DENIES SCIENCE!!! REEEEEEEE!!!")
When he went along with it, it caught the Democrats by surprise!
That won't happen. They will just say that the quarantine saved us all and end it there.
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.
He also let them make any stupid request and would consistently over-deliver just to shut them up. Look at the ventilators. Now we are shipping ventilators around the world because Trump got all the ventilators Democrats could ask for. Pretty hard to push their “not enough ventilators!” talking point when we are literally giving ventilators away now because we have too many.
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.