> What should he have done that he didn't do, in your opinion? I’ll just run down the record and stop at the first obvious error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

> What should he have done that he didn't do, in your opinion? I’ll just run down the record and stop at the first obvious error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._federal_government_response_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._federal_government_respon... > One month after [March 16, 2020, when the administration first recommended social distancing], epidemiologists Britta Jewell and Nicholas Jewell estimated that, had social distancing policies been implemented just two weeks earlier, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 might have been reduced by 90%. So there’s a concrete thing he could have done differently. > Any further disruption to the economy during COVID would have exacerbated that More stringent restrictions done earlier may have shortened the duration of the economic impact, who knows, we can’t exactly observe those alternate timelines directly. The administration had zero discipline on messaging and so nothing was done with any consistency. As you say, he was initially positive that a vaccine would arrive quickly; when it was available, he flipped and endorsed alternative treatments of all kinds, many of them harmful. Formerly a champion of Dr. Fauci, then later his worst detractor and chief prosecutor in the court of public opinion.