Trump responds with strong case showing wide-spread problems: 'Americans showed up to D.C. in massive numbers on Jan 6th, to hold their elected officials accountable for obvious signs of criminal activity throughout the Election.' (PDF via thehill.com)

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[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with Trump's statement on that but I have little sympathy because he is as much of a liar as the rest of them. Like that covid response that he led. The disease had been spreading here in the US for 6 months before the Trump administration even allowed testing to begin in March. It is impossible to believe he and Pence and Fauci and Birx did not all know that when they were presenting their televised breifing every day.

"Just wash your hands."

[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Federal government shipped the first batch of Covid tests to the states on February 4th. The states didn't have the proper swabs, vials and other petty problems, some which seemed exaggerated resistance. Several batches of those first tests were contaminated. The problems were worked out over the next two weeks, under constant political opposition and media heckling, which pretended this wasn't a historically fast development and distribution of tests for a novel virus.

The test contamination problem was a common problem, which repeated in large batches around the world for the next year, as factories became clean-room medical supply producers over night.

Trump wasn't in charge of the pandemic response. The government had released a brand new Global Health Security strategy on May 9, 2019, with a focus on an all-of-government response. This replaced the 'group of old guys with other jobs,' pandemic response team, with a real response plan. This was many years in the making and the result of lessons learned from Ebola, Zika, and the dozen other seriously near disasters we were woefully unprepared for in the decade prior to Trump. Biden almost immediately scrapped it and rewrote it, mostly because it had Trump's name on it, despite it being almost totally developed under Obama. I'm sure he had a few new lessons learned the year after Covid started, though.

Yet, mostly Trump told people not to panic, that they had a to make their own best decisions based on recommendations from medical professionals. He then let the medical professionals do the talking, having them televise updated information and recommendations until the media refused to broadcast it anymore, because they were board. Early on, we had little useful information, except for "wash your hands." Wash your hands and doing it thoroughly was our CDC's first and biggest suggestion to the public.