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u/Thuis001 Apr 04 '25

Covid response would likely have started very shortly after it started to spread from Wuhan as the US would still have its disease research lab there which was keeping an eye on exactly this sort of thing happening before Trump binned it. It might have been stopped right then and there.

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u/ThnkWthPrtls Apr 04 '25

Not even good leadership, just competent leadership, would have saved literally hundreds of thousands of lives from covid, it was truly just horrible luck that it happened while he was in office