Now that it has been proven that Trump is a criminal and one of the 5 worst presidents in US history, why do people still support him?
I am thinking most of his supporters are criminals.
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@GerOttman
[quote]The US did succeed at flattening the curve — at least at first. Businesses closed and most states issued stay-at-home orders; later research concluded those lockdown measures helped prevent tens of millions of Covid-19 cases.
But America failed to take advantage of that window to ramp up its virus testing and tracing capabilities, and states quickly faced intense pressure to relax their policies to alleviate the economic costs of the shutdowns. Reopening began earlier than public health experts believed it should. The political will to impose new lockdowns had evaporated by the time cases spiked again.
At the end of 2020, with more than 20 million Covid-19 cases and nearly 350,000 deaths in the US, it is evident that trying to flatten the curve was not sufficient to end the pandemic. That doesn’t mean it failed entirely. Slowing the spread of Covid-19 was meant to buy time to figure out what came next. But the US never did. [/quote]
[quote]The US did succeed at flattening the curve — at least at first. Businesses closed and most states issued stay-at-home orders; later research concluded those lockdown measures helped prevent tens of millions of Covid-19 cases.
But America failed to take advantage of that window to ramp up its virus testing and tracing capabilities, and states quickly faced intense pressure to relax their policies to alleviate the economic costs of the shutdowns. Reopening began earlier than public health experts believed it should. The political will to impose new lockdowns had evaporated by the time cases spiked again.
At the end of 2020, with more than 20 million Covid-19 cases and nearly 350,000 deaths in the US, it is evident that trying to flatten the curve was not sufficient to end the pandemic. That doesn’t mean it failed entirely. Slowing the spread of Covid-19 was meant to buy time to figure out what came next. But the US never did. [/quote]
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues Sure, you can dip your dick in it..
ElwoodBlues · M
@Ynotisay Yep. And the really disgusting thing is Trump knew early on how dangerous it was, as shown by his remarks to Woodward:
Trump, Feb. 07 to Woodward:
[quote]“It goes through the air. That’s always tougher than the touch. You don’t have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”[/quote]
But Trump continued to lie about it for another month, just on the hope that maybe stock markets wouldn't drop too much. DISgusting!!
Trump, Feb. 07 to Woodward:
[quote]“It goes through the air. That’s always tougher than the touch. You don’t have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”[/quote]
But Trump continued to lie about it for another month, just on the hope that maybe stock markets wouldn't drop too much. DISgusting!!
LordShadowfire · M
@ElwoodBlues My favorite quote from that interview is where he literally said he was going to play down the risk to the public. He literally admitted on tape that he intended to lie to the American people.
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ElwoodBlues · M
@MarmeeMarch
[quote]He put together the Covid task force on 1/29 after the very first SARs-CoV-2 case was identified in the USA from a traveler from Wuhan, China to Washington State on 1/20.[/quote]
Why did we need a new Covid task force? Due to the fact that Trump gutted Obama's cabinet level pandemic response team in 2018 (technically the White House's National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense).
See "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it" by Beth Cameron; Wash Post March 13, 2020
And let's not forget his cuts to CDC spending:
[quote]The president introduced his fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on Feb. 10, just 11 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concerns. The spending plan included a 16 percent reduction in CDC funding from the 2020 spending levels.[/quote]
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170
And let's not forget that when Trump halted US funding to WHO in 2020 (should have been $118 million), he already had us in arrears to WHO by $81 million from 2019.
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/850326053/u-s-was-behind-on-payments-to-who-before-trumps-cutoff
All in all, It's fair to say that Trump opposed readiness spending on health matters until it was too late. Not all his CDC tax cuts went thru, but he proposed CDC cuts every budget as well as stiffing WHO in 2019.
And, although I fully approve of Op Warp Speed, the fact is Pfizer - who didn't take a penny from Op Warp Speed - was first to market and was the biggest supplier of vaccines to the US. For sure Moderna helped, but Pfizer was first and biggest in the US without OWS money.
[quote]He put together the Covid task force on 1/29 after the very first SARs-CoV-2 case was identified in the USA from a traveler from Wuhan, China to Washington State on 1/20.[/quote]
Why did we need a new Covid task force? Due to the fact that Trump gutted Obama's cabinet level pandemic response team in 2018 (technically the White House's National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense).
See "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it" by Beth Cameron; Wash Post March 13, 2020
And let's not forget his cuts to CDC spending:
[quote]The president introduced his fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on Feb. 10, just 11 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concerns. The spending plan included a 16 percent reduction in CDC funding from the 2020 spending levels.[/quote]
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170
And let's not forget that when Trump halted US funding to WHO in 2020 (should have been $118 million), he already had us in arrears to WHO by $81 million from 2019.
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/850326053/u-s-was-behind-on-payments-to-who-before-trumps-cutoff
All in all, It's fair to say that Trump opposed readiness spending on health matters until it was too late. Not all his CDC tax cuts went thru, but he proposed CDC cuts every budget as well as stiffing WHO in 2019.
And, although I fully approve of Op Warp Speed, the fact is Pfizer - who didn't take a penny from Op Warp Speed - was first to market and was the biggest supplier of vaccines to the US. For sure Moderna helped, but Pfizer was first and biggest in the US without OWS money.
LordShadowfire · M
@MarmeeMarch "I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward on March 19. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
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