Yeah.. It's not looking great for Trump right now, depending on how much you believe the polls and such..
Oh well..
If the land of the free is coming to an end I'll just have to change my game plan..
Trump wasn't bucking the experts or anything like that, he was just following what people in his administration were saying to do.
We did have false info from the chinese controlled WHO at the time too remember.. "no human to human infections"
Their was a lot of heat about the travel restrictions being "racist".. I don't care who says what.. I remember that shit..
Is Trump also supposed to be an infectious disease expert? Or listen to the ones that are that he hired?
I don't see how Trump fumbled on the china virus, but whatever..
It started with lies from china and the WHO and now the statistics on it are currently inflated for many reasons..
True on China lying, no one is going to argue about that. Not sure on if we're able to blame the WHO though, their task is to distibute information from health experts of the many different countries in the world. They don't really have the resources to go into a country and independently verify all of the information that is out there.
If we want them to do that, we should set them up with the task of that. Who knows how certain countries are going to react about that though (China, Russia, etc)
Trump isn't expected to be an infectious disease expert, though it's expected for the President to listen to his advisors. Plus -- Not supposed to promote things (medical) that dont work.
I'm not convinced that things would've played out much differently if China had been completely transparent (something nobody would ever expect them to do).
The whole world knew that in Jan China locked everyone down, started frantically building hospitals and shooting stray dogs.
In Feb and March we watched it spread through Europe, not too concerned.
And then April comes and you know the rest.
Is there really anything China could've told us in Dec/Jan that would've had a bigger impact than watching a bunch of other countries go through it in real time over a 3 month period?
They would've had to of been very confident that it would hit us a few months later. AND We would've had to convince us to self inflict economic damage. So many things would need to go right.
If they got the time frame wrong, for example, and told us it was coming in Feb, after a couple weeks everyone would just be screaming that China was just playing the 'why are you hitting yourself' game with America.
