>covid response should have been even stricter and of even greater scope than it was always amazes me how one of the biggest criticisms of Trump is that he did

>covid response should have been even stricter and of even greater scope than it was always amazes me how one of the biggest criticisms of Trump is that he didn't take advantage of an emergency to seize more power. What would their reaction have been if he'd pulled a Xi and started welding people into their apartments in New York City at the start of the pandemic like China did in Wuhan? Or forced them to download a real time tracking app onto their phones for contact tracing? Surely that couldn't be abused at all