Nicholas Kristof, in a New York Times op-ed today, compares what might have been with the COVID-19 / Trump Virus to what has happened, and it's nothing close to what pathological liar and sociopath Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump keeps claiming:
"Suppose Trump in January — or even in February — had warned the public of the dangers, had ensured that accurate tests were widely distributed (Sierra Leone had tests available before the United States) and had built up a robust system of contact tracing (Congo has better contact tracing than the United States).Trump has the COVID-caused deaths of tens of thousands of Americans on him, for failing to act with urgency, for downplaying (i.e., lying) about the severity and spread of the virus, and for urging his gullible covidiot cult to ignore public safety and to reopen the economy prematurely, causing the first wave of the virus to continue. In the memory of those people who died needlessly, never forget.
Suppose he had ramped up production of masks and empowered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lead the pandemic response, instead of marginalizing its experts.
Suppose he had tried as relentlessly to battle the virus as he has to build his wall? [snip]
It wasn’t as if the United States was unready. A 324-page study in October 2019 found that America was the best-prepared country in the world for a pandemic — but it didn’t imagine that the United States would fumble testing, data collection, contact tracing, communications and just about every other facet of managing a novel virus.
'The administration made every single mistake you could possibly make,' Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who early in his career helped eradicate smallpox, told me.
'We could have beaten it back,' Brilliant said. 'We could have prevented the horror story we have now.'” (our emphasis)
