Blurryeyed wrote:
It was a bad moment. He was grasping for straws, when was the last time the country was faced with such a crisis and of course it all fell onto his shoulders as president... It was a stupid comment I will concede that.
The influenza Pandemic of 1918 was the last time that the world faced a major worldwide health crisis until the Covid-19 Pandemic hit.
In the middle of a worldwide pandemic, the leader of the United States SHOULDN'T be grasping for straws!
The fact that the trump administration threw out the pandemic response manual, and reassigned the individuals in that specific office to other departments and offices, so that they were unable to cohesively track infections around the world was one of the first bone headed moves the trump administration made.
Also, the trump administration knew that our Strategic National Stockpile was depleted, and bungled their efforts to replenish it.
https://www.citizen.org/news/stockpile-depleted-trump-administrations-bungling-and-delays-in-pandemic-response-will-be-deadly/https://homelandprepnews.com/stories/48026-us-senators-call-on-trump-to-answer-questions-on-mismanagement-of-strategic-national-stockpile/?ampThen once the writing was on the wall, and trump could no longer ignore the fast rate of climb in the Covid-19 deaths within the United States, trump thought it might be a good idea to put Jared Kushner and his college buddies in charge of the supply chain problems.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administration-abuses-thwart-us-pandemic-responseThis resulted in privately or state purchased items being confiscated upon landing in the United States, and being rerouted to GOP States and locations.
Let's not forget that the trump administration blatantly forced unscientific changes about the Coronavirus to websites, like the CDC. See the above link.
This next link shows the early timeline of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the weak responses by the trump administration.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-federal-governments-coronavirus-actions-and-failures-timeline-and-themes/On February 25, 2020 trump outright LIED to the world!
On March 11, 2020 there were 1,000 cases reported in the United States, but by March 27, 2020, the number of cases had surpassed 10,000 cases. In 16 days the number of cases had multiplied by over 10 times.