With Covid back in the news let’s all remember trumps inability to deal with a pandemic proven by his denials there was one and saying don’t worry by April it will go away.
With better leadership maybe we would not have had to shut down the whole country.
Originally Posted by mtnitlion
Trump was opposed to mass shutdowns. it was the so-called "experts" like Fauci the fraud who advocated that which is rather odd since as a "scientist" you'd think he'd know that 100 years of data that shows mass lockdowns do not work and in fact prolong pandemics was guaranteed to fail.
the US should have done as Sweden did, no mass closures, no mask mandates. Sweden's plan worked. recall the press ridiculing Sweden for "not obeying" the science? actually, they were following the science and the data shows now it was the right way to handle it.
i find it amusing some of my fellow posters think Trump shutdown the economy, mainly because the leftist press spun it that way on purpose to "blame" Trump for reluctantly letting "experts" like Fauci talk him into it. the "experts" were wrong as we know now and worse still had an agenda for advocating shutdowns when they knew the data clearly shows these lockdowns only prolong the issue. look at China now. what did their harsh lockdowns get them? exactly what the science says, a prolonged pandemic. imagine that!
two word to remember here ....
Federal Republic.
what does that mean? that a sitting president has very limited authority over the states. with exception of Federal workers and the Military, Trump or any president has no actual constitutional authority to mandate anything. Trump's admin actually only issued a recommendation. it was up to the state Governors to decide to follow it,
or not. and the recommendation did not state long-term lockdowns.
i think that covers "blaming" the shutdowns on Trump, don't you?