Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There was little any American president could’ve done to stop it. The development of the vaccines, however, is among the biggest public health achievements in our country’s history.

Where Trump failed was in politicizing both the virus and any and all mitigation efforts from the start. The lines were drawn early and emphatically, on both sides. There was never going to be the will for the kind of collective action it would take to put this behind us.

 

That's the clusterfuck tbh

 

And that’s why it’s a total clusterfuck.

 

I thought you meant from a disease-control standpoint.

Although, I’m not sure the appetite for collective action has existed in this country for quite some time.

 

The "Open up America!" chorus would have been just as loud --- maybe even louder --- under a Democratic administration in 2020.

You think any of the states would have acted differently than they did? Florida and Texas would have been Florida and Texas. California would have screamed "Shut it down!" while their politicians secretly went to restaurants and hair salons.
Or that the vaccines would have been developed any faster?

What, exactly, would have changed?

 

They would have followed trump and put on their mask, because they do what he tells them to do and the rest of us would have done it because it was the right thing to do. And the trumper types around the world would have followed. (generally speaking of course)

 

Well, for starters, we wouldn’t have spent the first three months alternating between “this virus was made up by Democrats to be mean to me” and “it’ll disappear one day, just like a miracle.”

 

We would have just substituted other inane things.

But to pretend, with an election months away, that the other side wouldn't have thought "Shit, we can't let this wreck the economy the summer before an election or we're toast" is just hopelessly naive.

You either had Trump in 2020, or you'd have him (or another Republican) now. Absolutely no way an administration fails to change hands in January 2021, no matter who was in charge in 2020. They were dead incumbent walking.

 

Not necessarily, if whoever was president would have done the "we're all in this together, and it's patriotic to put on your mask!" chants. Heck, the GOP mastered that sort of BS back in 2001-2008.

Trump should have put on his mask, had everyone take pics of him getting the vaccine, give a bunch of thumb's ups, and he'd be in in his second term legitimately this time.

 

That would have been a little difficult to pull off.
The first vaccine dose in the U.S. was not administered until a month and a half after the election.

Of course, Trump could have gotten the, ahem, Sputnik V vaccine . . .

 

I don’t disagree. But that and Trump being a giant dingus can both be true simultaneously.

 

Absolutely.