Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[Von Cichlid]

(09-01-2020, 12:05 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: We have more deaths than any country out there.  






Yeah, asking you to wear a face covering is practically quartering Red Coats in your house against your will.


Jason beat me too it, but not wasting two months reaction time pretending it was a MSM and Democrat hoax would have been nice.  Following advice that travel bands aren't effective, but testing, contact tracing and quarantining proven to be more effective would have been nice as well.  Instead of relying on the CDC to develop and manufacture a test for months, they could have approved commercially available tests they eventually used.  Hell, just not spreading misinformation would have been a plus.

But, providing guidance and coordination on a national/federal level is important and a responsibility Trump totally abdicated except for his failed travel ban which wasn't a travel ban.  Since you were infantry, let's put this in infantry terms.  If a company commander is conducting a raid does he provide the platoons with guidance and coordination? Or do all the squad leaders try to figure it all out on their own?  It's the former, but Trump's response was the latter.

OK, I'll admit defeat to you and GMDino on Trump's response to COVID.  If he loses this election, it will be due to his response to COVID, and I think everyone knows this. 

Two qualifiers though-

1.  It would have been absurdly difficult bordering on impossible for him to handle it well with a media and opposition that looks for every opportunity to crucify him any chance they get.  The media had just gotten through gleefully reporting on an impeachment farce that wasted resources and that was totally just for show.  There is no way they would have given the support needed for a unified response one month after that nonsense.

2.  His response will probably at absolute maximum change the vote of 5% of the independent vote, which may be enough to swing this election, unfortunately.  Even if he had handled it brilliantly (which he did not and it would have been impossible anyway), then there would still be near 40% of the voters that totally despise him and would vote for him under no circumstance.  

To wit, how many of the people in the poll on this page who say they are voting for Biden voted for Trump last year?  I'll bet zero. I don't know a single person who voted Trump last year that is not this year, and I don't figure too many people who didn't vote Trump are going to this year (In the big city blue states that might be another story, but they are too heavily democrat for it to probably matter.).