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This is an absurd comment because just a couple years earlier, the Obama administration did a very effective job handling H1N1 without the amount of forewarning
by fatbird 7y ago
This is an absurd comment because just a couple years earlier, the Obama administration did a very effective job handling H1N1 without the amount of forewarning the Trump administration had. And that's not meant to be a partisan view of it: The Obama admin clearly took it seriously quite quickly, and by all indications (e.g., memos by Peter Navarro and Alex Azar in January), the key players in the Trump admin did too. It's that Trump himself, and maybe Kushner, had their own ideas, and actively thwarted an effective U.S. reponse.
The damage here isn't about left/right. It's about a few people in a position to bungle it, doing so with grade B cinema effectiveness.
- ryankemper 7y agoH1N1 doesn't seem like a good comparison without spending a lot of time contextualizing the differences here. They are just such different magnitudes of mortality, and to a much lesser extent, transmissibility. -- I guess, my question is, can you point to some actions that the Obama administration took, relative to the timeline of when the WHO issued the warning, and compare that to the Trump administration's coronavirus response? (BTW, it's not relevant, but I will say that I do agree that Trump is a total idiot and will put his ego before...well, everything. He has completely mischaracterized our testing capacity, along with tons of other issues. But I'm suspicious of blanket claims that administration X did a better job without a little more substance than you provided)