07-04-2020, 09:06 AM
(07-04-2020, 08:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: The same thing all other western leaders mandated. Wear masks, keep social distance, shut down non-essential businesses and open back up only as soon as the numbers aflow for it, etc.
Of course, next to "mandating" things there is always a role of urging people to do the right thing. Something a president also can do, aside from mandates. Trump failed in that regard as well.
Now if any governor then had said, no screw that, I do not obey these orders, I do not listen to the sensible things the WH recommends, and you as US president can do nothing about that (I do not know if that is true), then I might see a point. But fact is that Trump did, again, all the things I listed and this is not anyone else's fault.
He held daily briefings with medical experts telling folks what they should do, but he's tro blame bedcause he didn't urge people to wear a mask, he let them decide for themselves. You'll just have to be aghast if you think my priorities are wrong by asserting that is less important than keeping liberal judges off the Supreme Court.
Now you can think that it would be wiser to have a national shutdown of "non-essential" businesses and force everyone to wear a mask than it is to defer to the Governor of each state to determine what is best for his/her state, but I'll view it as otherwise.