Originally Posted by
Duffman
So, no other president could do a better job of enforcing and supporting public health measures during this pandemic?
The argument is that I don't think Trump took the public health measures seriously and I think other people could do a lot better. All the arguments against me so far have revolved around "it's the states responsibilities' to pass public safety laws," so is everyone saying they approve of Trump's handling of the virus because it's so far outside his lane he can't do anything or because you think masks are stupid and the health measures are all smoke and mirrors, so you support his laissez faire approach?
Someone else said it best - virus gonna virus. I love how you think if only Trump would have said how serious this was and we had all wore our common sense inhibitors in the supermarket, none of this would have happened...All of this stuff you want to do - lock down, distance, close everything - it is all just delaying the inevitable AT BEST. None of it gets rid of the virus, it only delays it (and that is if you believe masks do anything, of which there is no scientific proof - just lots of "anectdotal evidence" that counts for proof in our TODAY show mentality these days).
Laissez faire approach? hysterical. What did you want him to do? We needed ventilators? He forced GM to build ventilators. Now we have so many we don't know what to do with them. Hospitals? did we need more hospital beds? Like this?
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https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/85171...id-19-patients
Do you think him saying "hey everybody, this is really bad and serious" would have made some kind of difference? Like maybe it would have been MONTHS before I could get toilet paper rather than weeks? Would that have helped somehow?
and by the way, FWIW I didn't vote for the guy and not defending him per se, just the silly idea that this is somehow his fault.