07-05-2020, 09:29 AM
(07-05-2020, 02:08 AM)Dill Wrote: If Trump has actually done the things he has been accused of--reducing the CDC by 80% last year, ignoring warnings in Jan/Feb., calling the pandemic a hoax, scoffing at masks, garbling national logistics, confusing/ambiguating his own doctors' recommendations, daily making false or misleading statements ("It's under control; anyone can get a test who wants one"), stopping or reducing testing, backing governors who open their states early, or never close them down--
and if the Right continues to scoff at masks and testing and other "communist" restrictions on our FREEDOM, and how the "hoax" is designed to help Dems win . . .
then I think the truth is most likely somewhere towards "the Left."
Ah, you also started a short list. I mean, it's a bit frustrating, to face the counter-argument how Trump always gets blamed unfairly and that hence every critizism of him is overblown in nature.
So I suggest to make one more list of perceived Trump covid failures, and bfine or whoever can point out which of the critizism is non-factual, unfair and overblown.
- He constantly sports theories of how the pandemic will go away miraculously
- He repeatedly claimed or suggested it was under control when it clearly was not under control
- He did not take it seriously for a long time, called it a hoax (later blamed his briefer) and reacted way late
- He recommended a drug that explicitly was not recommended by medical experts
- He theorized about injecting disinfectants (and about UV radiation) as treatment
- He kneecapped Obama's pandemic plan and then complained about Obama not having left a plan
- He ignored multiple warnings about being ill prepared for a pandemic
- He suggested to cut down testing for testing makes the numbers look bad
- He claimed testing in the US is far bigger and better than anywhere else
- He accused health care workers of scheming to steal masks
- He often didn't wear masks (it looks bad, he doesn't want to give the press the satisfaction), mocked Biden for wearing a mask
- He encouraged protesters against his own admin's measures and recommendations
- He held and will hold rallies without masks when medical experts strongly recommended to avoid large gatherings without masks
- He called it "Kung flu" and suggested the virus was man-made and even set out intentionally
- He handcuffs the CDC, including not allowing them to go public
- He went in open opposition to Fauci on twitter
- He caused some chaos in purchasing protective gear (including a federal seizure of shipments) and refused federal leadership on that issue
Now that is in no way a complete list of my grievances with Trump in that time. There are many things I deem a mistake, but that might at least be regarded controversial. These things on this list though, they do not even seem controversial to me. But as I said, bfine or whoever is free to find the hyperbolic, unfair or wrong points made on this list, therefore giving credibility to the "well, critizism arises just because so many people irrationally hate Trump" argument.
Lastly, I'd be at a loss not to mention the mind-boggling falsehoods he put out that were not listed here, which either are cynical lies or signs of a lack of the most basic understanding of things. There's a "if we don't open up soon, suicides will by far exceed covid deaths"-saying. I personally love his "I ALWAYS knew it was a pandemic, long before the WHO did"-lie - while also claiming that "nobody" knew that this could happen. Also everybody who wants a test can get a test, how AWFUL Obama did with the H1N1 virus, that NY implemented a lottery on who can live and who needs to die, that Pelosi danced in Chinatown... these are so many, each one too small to put on the list, but in the sum, it is abhorrent. Therefore one last point:
- He tells abhorrent lies
And if I forgot something important on this list, tell me, I sure did; I will update it then.