07-05-2020, 10:46 AM
(07-04-2020, 11:04 PM)jason Wrote: Here's the thing... No one can truly pin the virus making its way here on Trump. Wuhan is a commercial hub. I believe it has a population of 11 million. Whether anyone knew it or not there was community spread there in November of last year, and people were coming and going out of the city. People began arriving at hospitals with pnmonia that couldn't be treated... By the time anyone had any idea of what was happening, the toothpaste was already outta the tube. I can only criticize his leadership after the virus had taken hold in the US. His insistence on placing the blame on China is ridiculous as well.
Reports came out a while ago that said Trump had been warned of the potential for this well before it happened, but instead of heeding those warnings and helping China out, he cut our resources in China, including the one person embedded in their public health system that we had whose job it was to give us early warnings about something like this.
He absolutely can shoulder some blame for it making its way here and can be criticized for actions before the spread. Sure, his attitude towards the preventative measures recommended by the CDC have emboldened people to ignore them enough that we have zero chance of reaching herd immunity in this country, and we should criticize him for that, but we can't forget that in his effort to do whatever it was he was trying to do, he greatly diminished our capabilities to respond to this pandemic and he made policy decisions that helped this outbreak become the global pandemic is became.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR