Remember this trump tweet?

Probably more deaths then reported.

I am the furthest thing from a Trump apologist and believe he horribly botched our national response to covid and thousands and thousands of people died as a result.

That said, given what we knew one year ago, I’m not sure that a better president would have messaged too much differently at that particular point in time. A different tone, sure, but I bet not much more than mild caution at the most to the public. Behind the scenes would have been very different, I imagine, but publicly - I don’t think so, quite yet.

ETA: I did not explain myself well, and maybe my lack-of-sleep-addled brain is thinking something I wouldn't if I were well-rested lol. Trump botched this from the beginning and he flat-out lied A LOT. None of this is what I'm referring to as what others would have done. His constant minimizing of it and never taking it seriously - also not what I'm thinking of. 

I'm just thinking, broadly, that most US presidents, in late February 2020, would have - publicly, at least - been mostly "don't worry a lot about this, we are doing the right things, etc." But even as I'm saying that, it's feeling more different from Trump, who was more "don't worry, just ignore it." idk. It made sense to me when I first wrote it lololol

A lot of leaders of other countries were taking this a lot more seriously than trump this time last year, and were speaking to their citizens with far more concern, and not brushing it all aside and pretending it would all go away in a couple of weeks.

I don’t know, all the signs were there that this could blow up to be a huge problem and those signs were totally ignored. I think any other president who bothered to pay any attention to the daily briefs and who actually relied on science would have been much more cautious with their messaging. Don’t forget that Trump’s administration gutted the pandemic preparedness system two years prior, and those experts basically believed it wasn’t a matter of if a pandemic would be a problem but when.

The video of Dr. Fauci is from Feb. 17th, 8 days before Trump's tweet.

He was already warning people it could become a global pandemic. He talked about what was already happening in China and other countries.

And no mention of the stock market.

Don’t you ever get tired of being a trump sycophant ass-kisser?

Lindas maybe stick to the scrapbooking side. Your cherry picking and very flawed whataboutisms are not appreciated. If you have something meaningful to post, then we are open to discussion. But posting and running away is childish at best.

I’m curious. Did you watch the entire 6 minutes lindas? This is exactly where we were with what we knew at the particular point in time. So I don’t understand what you’re trying to point out.

As an aside, as a Seattlite, I believe we are within days of the one year anniversary of the outbreak at Lifecare becoming public. I know next Tuesday marks a year since the last time I ate in a restaurant.

I remember emailing with an acquaintance whose father is the CEO of a major global business who at the literal same time was telling me that global businesses were planning for at least months-long closures in the U.S. And I remember my brain refusing to take that seriously.

I really wish that the president had been straight from the beginning because the denial became a loyalty test. I think he could have done so without creating a panic, I do wonder if it literally was all because he didn’t want to spook the stock market.

So glad rush told the truth!
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Lindas looks into something just long enough to find a quote or thought that goes along with her agenda--which is to justify her vote and support for Trump.  I really don't think she goes deeper than that.