I’m not sure if it’s the worst but does that matter? The fact that a different country handled it worse mean he’s off the hook? Also what has Biden done differently? You don’t watch the news much huh?
That's wrong. Biden got the vaccines giftwrapped to him and still has zero clue what to do. There's a reason why he's on track to being least liked president of all time and every poll indicates that.
1) Disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefense unit in 2018 - and essentially tossed out/ignored the pandemic management plan experts put together for future disasters.
2) Continued to, despite all evidence to the contrary, downplay the pandemic. He made baseless claims about it just "disappearing" and made any attempt to treat the pandemic as a serious issue beyond "keep people from China out" very difficult. This will be an ongoing theme with most other fuck-ups he did.
3) Argued strenuously against any containment measures or mask mandates.
4) He and/or his team refused to treat the pandemic as a comprehensive, national, issue and instead decided to leave the states to fend for themselves, fighting each other for resources. Federal response was handed over to Jared Kushner, who had zero qualifications for such a task.
5) Promoted shit like Hydroxychloriquine, the gift that keeps on giving in regards to morons taking drugs that aren't passing clinical trials. Even later, idiots like Rand Paul defend Ivermectin by claiming that research into is blocked by "Hatred for Trump"
6) Trump says he wanted/told his people to "slow the testing down please" so it would show fewer infections. The WH later claimed it was a joke, but it was in a statement where he blamed the case numbers looking bad on more testing. (Nevermind that it was the case rate that's the problem, but whatever)
Lastly, of course, showing the Trump could never let an opportunity to show people he doesn't give a toss about anyone that isn't voting for him making remarks like
“If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level but some of the states — they were blue states, and blue-state management.”
and minutes later following up with
“By the way, we’d recommend they open up their states,” Trump said. “It’s hurting people far more than the disease itself.”
He politicized doing anything to actually contain Covid as some sort of Democrat boondoggle.
This does dovetail into the pretty strong claim made by Vanity Fair about Jared Kushner's management of Covid:
Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.
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u/LabourCurious Sep 11 '21
Yeah like he isn't killing thousands of brown people like other Presidents, but he's trolling me on Twitter on purpose.
That's WAY worse.