Again, it's like a bad joke around here these days. You can find many quotes from Trump, from the WhiteHouse and from the administration undermining virtually everything you guys just claimed. The Trump admin followed the professional guidance on the mask mandate and social distancing and repeatedly referred people to the official resources. It's not his fault that the guidance jumped around so much. I mean - for example - Fauci repeatedly asserting that masks wouldn't help early on and then changing his position later (my own view on that was that he always expected they'd help but he was trying to prevent the population from buying out the limited supply so that medical professionals could acquire it - up to you if you think that lie was worth it, knowing full well that none of you give Trump himself any good faith leeway on such things).
There are no identifiable benefits from "centralizing equipment and supply" other than those that were realized by the Trump admin. The Trump administration pressed industry nationwide to deliver results and supplies and they did so at a pace that exceeds historical performance. What exactly did you want? Trump got the nation through the ventalitator "shortage" before the doctors figured out they were a mistake to use in many cases. He broke the road block at the CDC/FDA that caused the testing delays and shortages and then took it further and decimated the roadblocks that they tried to set up to slow down emergency approval of test kits. As a result only a handful of countries (almost all extremely rich tiny population countries) have better test penetration than the US. Even the left governors admitted that Trump got them what they asked for, and he did it without allowing panic hoarding to disrupt the distribution.
Why would anyone support "local decisions to close businesses"? Virtually none of those decisions were scientifically justified. It's just a fact at this point that most closures were arbitrary and unnecesary. Life had to change, but people were more than capable of doing it once we understood the virus enough to explain what to do. Closing businesses, and much worse closing schools, was a mistake in most instances. Not sure what you mean on supporting CDC reopening of schools, the CDC's position was too keep them more closed than they should have been based on the risks present and the actual harms that remote learning was causing. Is that what you mean? That he pushed the CDC on the excessive position it was taking on school closings? Again, that was a good thing and something that a leader should have been doing.
Taking it seriously? You mean calling it a matter of life and death? Having daily press briefings until it became clear the press was going to use the time to spread misinformation? it's one thing to read MSM lies, its another thing to internalize them to the point you think they're true. I get how you could be confused on this, it's hard to read any left media at all that doesn't restate this lie. How often did you check the WhiteHouse.org link or look at their Coronavirus information for yourself? If you had you wouldn't believe this claim.
Centralizing and coordinating contact tracing? Lol, sure, that's exactly what we need, a government program to record everywhere we go, everyone we speak to and everyone we interact with. Nothing is going to go wrong with that (might want to take a look at AOC's calls for blacklists before you back that). The biggest issue with contact tracing in the US is HiPaa and medical privacy. Its a violation of that law (hmm... wonder who wrote those provisions and the policies under it) to share medical information - including a infectious disease results - without consent. How exactly was he suppose do it? Violate the law and do it as an autocrat - you guys love pretending he's an autocrat and would've flipped out. Contact tracing is failing - not because of a lack of federal coordination - but because once again your fellow Americans are selfish, they lie about it literally all the time. My community here in a blue state has a persistent problem with parents refusing to provide that information after a kid tests positive because the kid was partying and drinking alcohol illegally, adults refuse to out their friends. Heck, we've had a two week mandatory quarantine order for months and there's not been a seconds slow down in the Facebook and Instagram pictures of people hanging all over each other, including visitors from out of state. FB, Twitter and Instagram can manage to flag statements Trump makes that are true, but they can't be bothered to out their coronavirus quarantine violating customers.
Lol on blocking travel. Everyone of you on the left (and Biden) accused Trump of being a racist for his travel bans, and several of you called him out for his illegal ban of travel from Europe. Nothing like being a hypocrit on calling someone else out for doing things you thought were a bad idea when they did them.
It is true that some other nations got better results (on some measures) with similar policies, but its not apples to apples. The biggest difference is that those nations are not populated by Americans, whether its the selfish liberals who believe rules apply to other people but not themselves, or the conservative extremists who refuse to do anything that they're asked - no matter how sensible - as a matter of freedom, this country never had any ability to social distance properly. Zero chance. So yes, small European countries, that were more like managing a single state than a country this big, sometimes had better results, but not consistently and NOT AS A RESULT of anything Trump could have done differently. Heck if Trump had ordered the nation to wear masks no Democrat would have ever worn a mask again even if it killed them.
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Germany and every other EU country and probably all but China and Russia would be interested in a functioning vaccine by Pfrizer. The US expressing interest had zero impact on the vaccine development it was well under way long before the US agreement.
So there is a absolutely no reason to credit the Trump administration for its development.
Also funding vaccine development was something rather obvious given that most major countries were doing so well before the US announced Warp Speed.
Sure, keep telling yourself that. Just a magic coincidence that Pfizer's costs of development were around $2Billion, and its advance sale contract under Warp Speed was around $2billion. Never entered Pfizer's mind - at all - even in July when they signed the deal, while other companies were going full speed ahead and just as close to developing a vaccine, that the guaranty payment was material. The history of vaccine development - absent a program like Warp Speed - is for a single company to get the vaccine contract, and where more than one is pursuing for any that drop of the pace to drop out and stop spending money because it's a sunk cost that you'll never recover if you aren't first to market.
Warp Speed literally changed that dynamic to provide incentives to all those companies to keep going to give us the best chance for a rapid result and multiple vaccines (which gives us the best chance for not discontinuing the most effective vaccine just because a good enough vaccine was first to market). No telling how it plays out but it looks like Pfizer's may be the "first to market good enough" vaccine and others the best in class vaccines. That is not the result from the entire history of vaccine development, but it is the result from Warp Speed.
Bet you big that any future administrations dealing with a pandemic draw deeply from the Trump play book and copy virtually all of what Trump did and leave plans like the Biden-Obama plans on the dust heap of history, even if they never admit it. This was way too successful not to copy and they know it even if you keep falling for the false narrative.
