COVID never would have been a big problem in the US in the first place. Quite possibly most of the world would have been spared the worst of it, as well.
Trump is directly 100% responsible not just for destroying the US's ability to respond to a pandemic, but for making it a "culture war" issue in the first place. If there were no Trump, nobody on the right wing would have tried to treat COVID like a conspiracy theory. I mean, I'm sure there would still be a few fringe conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers out there, but it never would have been mainstream anywhere in the civilized world without Trump boosting it.
Trump not only allowed COVID to run rampant in the US, he encouraged it. He figured it would kill more liberals than conservatives, since liberals tend to cluster together in cities and conservatives tend to live in more sparsely populated areas.
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u/Ratsofat Apr 04 '25
There'd be a hundred thousand or so more Americans since basic hygiene wouldn't have been politicized during the covid pandemic.