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> You're LUCKY those people knew what they were doing DESPITE Trump's actions. And he KNEW. He acted the way he did because he knew the proper action was to loc

> You're LUCKY those people knew what they were doing DESPITE Trump's actions. And he KNEW. He acted the way he did because he knew the proper action was to lock down everything and stop the spread, but he also knew that would destroy the economy. He traded a million lives in the U.S. for the economy. As a non-US person - I don't understand this. Didn't all the locking down happen state by state anyway? He didn't stop anyone locking down, from what I understood? And he allocated $18bn to finding and distributing a vaccine for Covid[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

ModernMech 2y ago
When meat packing plants slowed down, their owners started losing money and complained to the government, who granted them waivers to open. Workers there of course caught covid and spread it to their families. They also pushed schools to open sooner on the basis that children were not as affected, but they caused teachers and staff to become infected and die. Trump put his dilletante son-in-law in charge of the logistic effort to distribute equipment, and Jared went on to recruit his rich buddies on the task for instead of experts, prompting Jack Kennedy's grandson of all people to blow the whistle, wondering why they were in charge of this monumental task instead of you know... experts. One thing they did was take equipment from states that needed it and redirect it to states that were loyal to Trump but didn't need the equipment. They also seized equipment purchased by states at airports, to the point states had to meet planes on the tarmac and escort the equipment to hospitals with state police. The end result is that the US had one of the worst pandemic responses in the early days, and today we have the distinction as the country with the most covid deaths (over 1 million) as well as having an absurdly high death rate compared to peer nations.

ModernMech 2y ago

When meat packing plants slowed down, their owners started losing money and complained to the government, who granted them waivers to open. Workers there of course caught covid and spread it to their families. They also pushed schools to open sooner on the basis that children were not as affected, but they caused teachers and staff to become infected and die. Trump put his dilletante son-in-law in charge of the logistic effort to distribute equipment, and Jared went on to recruit his rich buddies on the task for instead of experts, prompting Jack Kennedy's grandson of all people to blow the whistle, wondering why they were in charge of this monumental task instead of you know... experts. One thing they did was take equipment from states that needed it and redirect it to states that were loyal to Trump but didn't need the equipment. They also seized equipment purchased by states at airports, to the point states had to meet planes on the tarmac and escort the equipment to hospitals with state police. The end result is that the US had one of the worst pandemic responses in the early days, and today we have the distinction as the country with the most covid deaths (over 1 million) as well as having an absurdly high death rate compared to peer nations.