There are four factors that led to over 100,000 Americans needlessly dying

[Snake Plissken]

1 Trump ignored the threat

Trump sent out 1,795 tweets in the months of January and February and not a single one of them was to warn Americans about the pandemic even after he was briefed on how widespread and deadly it was predicted to be, but he did manage to send out a few hundred Tweets to gossip about what he saw on TV during those months.

2 Trump intentionally manufactured drama inundating our airports with infected travelers

When he did finally begin tweeting about the COVID-19 pandemic he used it to manufacture drama and chaos at airports causing our international airports to flood unscreened infected passengers into our nation's cities resulting death trolls three times higher than the next closest nation.

3 Trump tried to force our country to return back to normal with no regard for reality

Trump Encourages Mask-less Protests Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-governors.html

It is factually undeniable that Trump is a greater threat to American lives that Al Qaeda or ISIS.

4 Trump went out of his way to make wearing live saving masks political

If Trump didn't start his War on Masks this pandemic would have been contained in the Untied States already, but he just couldn't help himself ... Full On Dоuchebag is his only mode of operation.

[Ohio Joe]

1. 5 Lies and misinformation

Trump has, on a daily basis, spread lies and misinformation about the virus as well as how he is handling it.

[Mike 03]

2. 6. Rushing to the private sector instead of enacting the Defense Production Act.

Too many people wanted to profit off this disaster. Five months in, people still can't get tested and medical professionals can't get PPE.

FEMA is also AWOL.

[gab13by13]

9. Absolutely nailed it,

He put Jared in charge of procuring and distributing medical supplies which became a cluster f**k, with states competing against the federal government for supplies. He should have put Russell Honore in charge or someone similar.
The WHO offered us test kits which we refused and we instead sent out contaminated kits that cost us 6 weeks of testing. Still today because we rely on numerous private sector labs test results aren't coming back for 7 to 8 days which makes contact tracing impossible.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Meanwhile, he used the Defense Production Act

to get things for his wall on the border - even though he's only built 3 miles of new wall.

[certainot]

24. 7. coordination of misinformation and denial with RW media

to coordinate rw media all you have to do is get it to limbaugh and limbaugh is not only a mentor and tool of trump's, he is a tool of putin. what limbaugh spends his immensely valuable time on is always a good indication of what putin/trump want/are doing. limbaugh previews and reinforcecs anything trump does/says on important topics

limbaugh called covid a hoax from the beginning, saying it was an excuse for the left to force big govt solutions - just like global warming. then he pivoted to the death rates were exaggerated, masts are for sissies, we have to reopen, etc. he would not have called it a hoax if the trump admin didn't want him to.

the blaming of it on immigrants is what they were blaming 2014 ebola on - and they turned 9 senate seats by hyping it in oct, ending as soon as the elections were over in november. they were beginning to blame 2019 ebola on immigrants, talking about congolese joining the 'caravans' 'attacking' the border. but they got ebola controlled and along came COVID

american media/dem investigators must begin to investigate as if trump delayed action on covid thinking they could use it like ebola 2014 and trump is still on that plan. he is stupid and single minded enough to think he can still make it work.

[SallyHemmings]

3. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump

The mismanagement of this virus lays at his feet.

[usaf-vet]

25. +1000

[malaise]

4. You left out 37,000 deaths

That's 10 times 9/11

[Snake Plissken]

5. I figured some of the deaths would've happened anyway ... but yes 37,000 is probably too high

The death toll probably would have been only a few thousand if we had a real President who knew how to act like a functional adult.

[malaise]

12. Got yah

[NewJeffCT]

15. If Clinton was in office

the pandemic response team in China would not have been fired and the CDC liaison in Beijing would still be there. The virus MAYBE could have been mostly contained in China & Wuhan if we had acted in December and it would have been like SARS in the early 2000s mostly contained in China with a few outbreaks in other cities around the world.

[Snake Plissken]

16. If Clinton was in office the deaths would be in the hundreds not the hundred thousands

Being that is takes so long for the symptoms to surface it's pretty much impossible to have zeros deaths, but it certainly would been possible to organize a team to quarantine everyone coming from high risk zones back in March when we knew this was going to be devastating.

But more so, the pandemic response team would have been on top of this in late December giving us several months to put measures into place to isolate and trace everyone who began showing symptoms just as Vietnam did.


All it would have required is the ability to allow the experts to do their jobs and to get out of their way. Trump did the exact opposite.

[StarfishSaver]

17. And Republicans would have made a huge deal of those hundreds of deaths

It would have been Benghazi on steroids.

[Celerity]

30. Not a chance it would only be in the hundreds. Tens of millions of assholes exist

in the US and the RW would ultra rebel against Clinton on every COVID-19 she made. They would go 10 times, 20 times more batshit crazy than they are now. Deaths would be far lower yes, but not 140 times less.

[Champp]

6. 8. Trump modeled stupidity

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[soothsayer]

7. I think the fifth (though it sort of fits with one) is that he punted to the states.

[StarfishSaver]

18. He punted to the states w/o providing them anyhing they needed that could only come from the Feds

[soothsayer]

19. Yep

That’s for “our” use.

[Nevilledog]

21. And he tries to take responsibility for good results (New York)

When the only reason there was success was in spite of the malfeasance of the Fed. no-response.

[captain queeg]

8. Seems to be a common thread here

[North Shore Chicago]

10. He didn't

believe playing president would be such hard work. The very LAST thing he wants/is capable of doing is governing what used to be a great nation.

I predict more chaotic behavior in the coming months, there is nothing he won't do to tear the very fabric of this nation into a zillion pieces.

He is a sadist.

[Botany]

11. You forgot that both Trump and Kushner were told of the coming pandemic in Nov. of 2019 ....

.... and what did they do?

The looked for ways to make money off of "it" with their snake oil oil HCQ, their own
C-19 test kits instead of the perfectly good ones from the WHO, and they shipped 18
tons of PPE to China in Jan. & Feb. of 2020 because they owe China lots of $$$.


Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

[lagomorph777]

13. Pay For Slay

Putin is paying Trump to kill us, just as Putin is paying the Taliban to kill our troops.

[LiberalArkie]

20. What have they been giving him to keep him from getting sick?

Is he so unhealthy that the virus can't survive in his body? Is the secret to not getting sick burgers and KFC?

[IronLionZion]

22. Tying it to race was major factor in killing Americans

As racist dumbasses decided that Asian-Americans of all types were diseased, especially the ones who have never even been to China. But white is right even if they are returning to America from cruise ships or COVID-19 hot spots like Italy. No need to screen whites but double down on anti-Asian racism everywhere, avoid Chinese restaurants and markets, spew hate against "unvaccinated illegals" at the Southern border, etc.

It reminds me of the racist cops who are so concerned that black people are dangerous that they get completely surprised when they get killed by anti-government white criminals high on meth. And the racist TSA agents who need to thoroughly sexually assault brown people for safety reasons, but miss loaded handguns and combat knives carried by whites.

[zentrum]

23. And destroyed

…..our economy, along the way.

At this rate, by the time Biden takes office in January, it will be too late to save us any time soon.

Democrats need to inject even more urgency into the situation so that Joe has some efficacy by the time he's in the WH.

[Initech]

26. Maybe that's the plan.

Trump knew how grossly unpopular he is and was hoping that this was his chance to be the hero. But instead of being the actual hero, he turned into the biggest villain of all time and would rather watch America burn than do anything to save it. Now he will just quietly bow out and let the next president clean up the mess.

And however Biden does in his first few months in office will give the right wing hate machine endless fuel for the fire.

[2naSalit]

27. Also stealing PPE and testing supplies from states

and private parties who had already paid for them.

[Tbear]

28. "Full On Douchebag

is his only mode of operation."
Thanks Snake, I am cleaning the coffee off my keyboard now. Good one.

[Baclava]

29. Feb 26, "15 cases, and within a couple days it will be down to zero", all downhill from there

[scarytomcat]

31. A national strategy would be nice

A national test and track program w/ quarantine...
coordinated purchasing with need prioritized ...
these assholes failed on so many things
they have no idea what they should be doing
totally clueless.

When will we learn not to put people in charge that have no experience or understanding of complex issues.