Boomer Champions of the Coronapocalypse

[Eric the Green]

(03-29-2020, 02:59 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-27-2020, 11:29 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: President Trump's handling of the Covid-19 crisis has been highly successful so far.  The US only has 1000 deaths to date, compared to 16,000 so far in Europe, largely due to Trump's prompt action in restricting travel from China, and later from Europe.  Deaths are about as objective as it gets.  In addition, while the US economy is now taking a severe hit, it's not nearly as bad as the EU economy, at least so far.

I was actually opposed to the China travel restrictions at the beginning, but Trump was right and I was wrong.

I expect we'll have to agree to disagree on this.  From my side, it looks like Trump opponents are just refusing to see anything good about him, so I doubt there's any way to reach agreement on this.

We're weeks behind the EU on the COVID-19 timeline, so assume nothing.  On the other hand, we know for certain that:

• Trump vacated the Pandemic Planning Group assigned to , you know, actually plan for stuff like this
  
• He pooh-pooh'd everything about the crisis until it was fully deniable, then
  
• He refused to act, leaving it all to the private sector and the states.
  

It's hard to find anything good there.  It's easy to find criminal negligence.

Will the people recognize reality? So far, no sign of this.