No, I believe what he was implying is that we needed effective leadership on the national level to properly control the spread of this virus. We did not have that -- we had the leadership Trump provided for us instead.
The other 7.4 million Americans who have tested positive for the virus were not in a position to curb and control the spread. Donald Trump was and failed to do so. That to me makes him a reckless and arrogant dipshit in this matter.
Trump was extremely lucky As was Biden which is explained below in case you forgot and got by with smoke and mirrors the first 3 years of his presidency. The events of 2020 have exposed him for what he truly is. He is a terribly dangerous man to have as the leader of our country. For all of us.
Originally Posted by Jam3768
I wonder how many times it has to be explained to the Left that no President has the power to curb and control a virus. When Trump first said "I have the authority to do this and that" the Governor's especially Cuomo and Newsome were quick to remind him that he actually doesn't have that power. The President can't shut down bars, restaurants, schools in every state. Only Governor's can do that. Presidents can't mandate whether money goes to the people who lost jobs or states running out of money. Only Congress can do that.
Did you miss that bit of news about Biden's attempt to curb and control H1N1?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...1-virus-232992
Biden has fought a pandemic before. It did not go smoothly.
The Obama administration's ability to stop the swine flu came down to luck, one former aide says.
It was April 2009 and the 3-month-old Obama administration was desperately grappling with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression when homeland security adviser John Brennan arrived at the Oval Office to warn the president and Vice President Joe Biden of a new crisis: H1N1, the swine flu virus, was showing signs of rapid spread in Mexico, while cases were popping up in California and Texas.
Brennan pointed out that the Spanish flu — the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history — was an H1N1 strain. “It made their eyebrows go up,” Brennan says now, recalling Biden’s reaction in particular.
“‘Listen, we need to be aggressive early on this,’” Biden announced, according to Brennan.
The next week, Biden made good on his pledge — and set off a deluge of criticism. In an interview on NBC’s “Today,” Biden said he wouldn’t advise his family to fly on planes or ride the subway.
“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places right now," Biden said. "It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft.”
Airlines angrily accused Biden of fearmongering. Media rep
orts noted that Biden’s pessimism contrasted sharply with the reassurances President Barack Obama had given a day earlier, when he said there was no need to panic even as he declared a national health emergency.
Oh, OK, so when Obama "played down his virus" so as not to cause panic, that was a good thing but when bad Trump did it, it was called treason by the left. See how this works?
In a matter of hours, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew were summoned to the White House and assignedto clean up the mess Biden made: “Nip it in the bud,” LaHood said, recalling their instructions.
By 4 p.m., the three officials were hosting a news conference and backing away from the vice president’s words.
The snafu was the first of many scrambles and setbacks by the Obama administration in its initial response to the swine flu. POLITICO interviewed almost two dozen people, including administration officials, members of Congress and outsiders who contended with the administration’s response, and they described a litany of sadly familiar obstacles: vaccine shortfalls, fights over funding and sometimes contradictory messaging.
“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that this can’t happen again, they don’t have to go back to 1918, they just have to go back to 2009, 2010 and imagine a virus with a different lethality, and you can just do the math on that.”
Oh how quickly they forget or is it forgetfulness? Maybe the narrative that Biden handled a virus before and did it well, was just a lie and they hoped like Jam, that people wouldn't notice. Did Jam remember this and is just trying to put one over on us or did he really not know?
And yeah, Covid is much more lethal and spreads easier than H1N1.
Biden goes on TV touting that if he were President, he would mandate a federal law on wearing a mask. He said his advisers told him he had the authority to do so. He came back on the next and says he misspoke, that a President can't mandate what every state "must do", he can only recommend. Then he was right back at it the next day with the same message that if he were President, he would "shut the country down and mandate wearing a mask" but a President doesn't have that power, just ask Governor Cuomo.