10-28-2020, 07:22 PM
(10-27-2020, 11:12 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: The coronavirus? I don't see your point. You said "the coronavirus is the Democrats new hoax". Maybe if you would say "the coronavirus response is the Democrats new hoax" I would see your point.
My two cents on that is that he did follow what Fauci said to do. "I didn't see any discrepancies between what he told us and what we told him and what he ultimately came out publicly and said," Fauci, the country's top infectious diseases expert and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.
He really didn't say anything different than we discussed when we were with him," Fauci said.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/515718-fauci-says-trump-did-not-distort-impact-of-covid-pandemic
Trump also got manufacturing companies like Ford to produce ventilators, and masks because people were worried about those. The United States is a federal republic democracy, so that's all he could do. It's up to the governors to ask for federal help and put mask mandates and lockdowns.
The Democrat's criticism of Trump's response to the pandemic isn't and wasn't a hoax. He was definitely criticized. He is still be criticized. I think we can both agree the criticism actually happened and is still ongoing.
Trump's so called “travel ban” isn't a hoax. I think we can also both agree that he did restrict Chinese nationals from entering the country while still allowing thousands of travelers from China to enter the US. That's a fact, not a hoax.
Both the World Health Organization and Dr. Fauci didn't recommend travel bans because of their economic impact and lack of efficacy before Trump announced his travel restrictions. Recent history has born out both the WHO and Fauci were correct.
During Trump's rally speech in North Charleston, SC he claimed they were "totally prepared" and the pandemic hadn't "spread widely at all in the United States" because of his early action. At some other point he claimed we had 15 cases soon to be down to zero. Trump told Bob Woodward he had always down played the pandemic.
If we were totally prepared why did we have and still have shortages of PPE? Why did it take months to get a test? Why did Trump have to invoke the Defense Production Act to produce needed supplies if we were totally prepared? Why did states have to bid against each other and the federal government for needed supplies and needlessly drive up the price?
A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. If there is any hoax here, it is Trump's response to the pandemic. Not the Democrat's criticism of Trump's response.
