Trump's COVID Response

Trump tried to make fun of the pandemic as a "Democratic Hoax" remember, but even he took the vaccine himself. But then his followers booed when he mentioned it. But he was rational, he tried to keep as many as possible of his voters alive at least till the next election.

Donald Trump was president and was making a lot of offensive inflammatory comments, like calling covid “the China virus.” WaPo and other increasingly politicized news outlets did no investigation into this, instead calling all discussions of facts around this Occam’s razor explanation “conspiracy theories.” Now Donald Trump is not president so now we are slowly re-examining some actual evidence.

I wasn't familiar with the name, but this article is interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20220901142826/https://www.theat...I can understand why the WH was concerned.

A US administration which was still insisting that they were on the cusp of eliminating it in late March and is actively encouraging public disobedience of disease control measures for partisan reasons has decided it's the WHO's fault. This inevitably means discussion of their claims dominates the news cycle where many HN readers are based.[The fact the criticism is politically driven is also why people are focusing to political trivia like WHO treating One China as a reality like a

From the link you gave,"During a Feb. 28, 2020, campaign rally in South Carolina, President Donald Trump likened the Democrats' criticism of his administration's response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying "this is their new hoax." "So while he didn't exactly, it doesn't show a person who cares for reality. Snopes says "mixture" on it's veracity.> he's happy to have people on his task for

CNN is not "the left".Nor did Kamala Harris throw doubt on an existing and proven vaccine. No vaccine had been approved at that point, whereas Trump was blundering through the pandemic response in search of any way to save his political hide. There was a lot of evidence Trump put pressure on public health officials to downplay the pandemic and put people at more risk than necessary.Trump had already been known to be conman before he was elected. Everything we learned since only p

When you talk about politicians… are you including Donald Trump in that, who said that if you stop testing, we would actually have very few cases?Donald Trump, who talked about injecting bleach and sunlight into people to treat COVID, doing real time word association instead of educating the public during a pandemic?Donald Trump, who promoted hydroxycholoroquine as the miracle cure for COVID despite no evidence that it was?Donald Trump, who had his son-in-law run a team of unqualified v

This is the same guy who suggested injecting disinfectant or "bringing light inside the body" to cure covid. He also continues to lie about his election loss in a desperate attempt to cling to power. Trump is shameful, but he doesn't represent the long history of the US.

this is fascinating. while trump was president, all the leftards opposed getting the trump vax, as soon as the biden get installed and takes credit, the vax is pushed to the population with mandates on top.then of course, the issue becomes heavily politicized, and any deviation from leftard established course of action is an insurrection, worst than 9/11.the authors of whatever page on the internet are NOT your doctor, the author of this article is also NOT your doctor, the people pus

> proposed drinking bleachspeaking of trust. here's a PSA for those, who like myself, had trusted the media and thought that happened:https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...