"The Trump administration blocked the CDC from warning the public about the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, according to testimony from US health officials.
Leading figures in the US government response to the pandemic described struggling to get their message out because of interference from Trump officials in interviews with a House committee investigating how the pandemic was handled."
The fact this went from nothing to the 6th deadliest pandemic in recorded history proves this. They fucked up so hard it's unbelievable. All Trump and the rest of the west had to do was not politicize it and they could have beat this shit back like the previous SARS-CoV virus but no, it became something both political and egotistical because there was a moron in charge too stupid to realize he could have became, in a way, a hero. Instead, 700'000+ Americans have died for no reason and upwards (edit: potentially based on modelling, official records put the death toll at <5 million) of 20 million around the globe. Historians in the future will have a lot to say about what went wrong.
Trump sucked as a leader for many reasons, but one I still can’t believe was real, is his inability to bring opposing sides together to unite vs a common enemy. If he was in charge during 9/11 he’d start to blame Democrats and liberals for the attacks instead of uniting together vs a common terrorist threat.
Covid is such a softball issue that has no humans being the bad guys. It’s just humans vs Covid. It effects liberals and conservatives just the same, so why not appeal to liberals with uniting actions? What a dumb ass. He could’ve sailed into a 2nd term.
Edit: wow! Since I’m getting death threats in my inbox over this comment I’d like to say to any Trump supporters who are offended by this, I’m sorry you don’t like Making America Great Again by removing Trump from office and reclaiming conservatism from politicians bought by communist Russians. Sad. But you still can join the patriots side. It’s not to late to be an actual American.
So where is the backlash? So many conservatives are dying from this disease; why aren't they railing against the people (right-wing news, Don Trump, et al) that lied to them about the virus, the vaccination, and the masks?
No joke, they would rather die than admit they were ever wrong.
I'll never understand why Trump's COVID performance isn't the scandal of the century. I've seen serious people give him a pass, as if he only said some goofy things but largely did what anyone else would during an unpredictable time. The man has tens of thousands of deaths on his hands. Hillary Clinton testified for a dozen hours after Benghazi, and yet we'll never see Trump answer a question under oath about the Americans he left to die. Fuck Donald Trump and anyone who loves him.
Upwards of ~~a million~~ more than 1.5 million US deaths when all is said and done and the numbers are closely reevaluated. There is general agreement that the true numbers are undercounted and that red states deliberately fudged the numbers to hide the deaths in their states. This is systemic mass murder on a large scale, and Trump is likely guilty of Republican democide and crimes against humanity. The U.N. should probably open up a case. Specific incidents like the Tulsa Trump rally are extensively documented on a granular level and resulted in the deaths of high profile people; it shouldn’t be difficult to put together an international case against Trump and his enablers.
Sources:
* [“The U.S. Coronavirus Response Might Be a Crime Against Humanity”, 1/21]
* [“Undercounting of Covid-19 deaths is greatest in pro-Trump areas, analysis shows”, 1/21]
* [“US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies”, 2/21]
* [“New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S.”, 5/21]
* [“States Scale Back Pandemic Reporting, Stirring Alarm”, 6/21]
* [“Florida changed its COVID-19 death data just as surge began”, 8/21]
* [“Many States Are Not Reporting The Latest COVID-19 Numbers”, 9/21]
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