gbrk posted:Robot Unicorn posted:Jutu posted:This after just three weeks ago he was telling people to go out...ignore Trump and go about your business.
Four weeks ago, Trump said 'it'll just disappear one day, like magic.'. As late as March 13, Fox News was encouraging views to fly, go out to eat, go on vacation.
You let your hypocrisy show, again.
Actually Trump did briefly mention and address the COVID-19 virus in his early February State of the Union address and express his intent to protect the nation to the best of the government's ability to do so. I won't argue though that everyone, even the Infectious expert's opinion, didn't underestimate the effect and speed of the virus. If though you are trying to say Trump was the one to blame the most then you are way off. Trump was ridiculed and blasted, by the media, by Democrats, by Biden & Sanders as being xenophobic and racist and reactionary when he implemented the China travel ban due to the then epidemic. Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and De Blasio were inviting people to congregate and dine out and live normal lives in New York and Pelosi in China town in SanFransisco way after Trump started taking steps to limit American's exposure to the disease with the ban.
The real advocate and person left out of the discussion is George Bush who attempted to champion resources and efforts to prepare for some unforeseen future pandemic that might come one day and this was in 2005. Bush had dealt with the September 11th attacks and the war in Iraq and Afganistan but took the time to try and champion Government (Congress) to allot money to build up Americas reserves to prepare for a future pandemic but that never happened even though he tried to champion them to do so. Obama totally dropped the ball and never considered such and even allowed the Government's stockpile of Mask and materials to deplete to a low level. Yes, Trump followed and in his first four years also didn't follow up on Bush's recommendation but Obama had 8 years before that whereby he could have acted so really there is fault in everyone's corner. Bear in mind also that each State's governor has within their power and responsibility to prepare their respective states to meet such needs as in our Government, according to our Constitution, the States power is great and precedes that of the Federal Government for their own needs. Remember that Cuomo's own experts pre-warned him about New York's needs to prepare for a pandemic long before this happened and he never acted to prepare his State properly so to blame the Federal Government for failures that his own administration was responsible for again is but a political move to deflect responsibility. I don't blame Cuomo or any of the Democrats nor do I blame Trump for this is unprecedented and to expect that anyone could have foreseen it is a stretch given all the other pressing things Government had to deal with, Look at all the attention that Democrats and the media gave Impeachment all while the Pandemic was being born out in China. Talk about missed opportunity and wasting of time and money.
The real travesty in all this is the media and Democrats trying to blame Trump for this while ignoring their own ignorance and trying to use this as a political advantage for them. It was Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats who slowed down the help/bill that the Trump Administration sought by attaching all kinds of things to the bill that had absolutely nothing to do with the Virus pandemic and so much that there was no way it would pass the Republicans, things like parts of the New Green Deal and other liberal rewards and restrictions up until it was getting too obvious that the media could no longer conceal it.
The media and Democrats have been lambasting Trump calling him slow to act when they, themselves, were much slower and oblivious to the ever-growing pandemic yet instead of accepting that everyone had some fault and going on with the people in mind they want to politicize it and bring about division in a moment when unity is what we need. Sorry, but if you are wanting to point out hyprocrisy start at home for there is plenty in the Democrat's wheelhouse.
If I'm wrong then kindly cite the Democrats who were ahead of Trump in approaching and attacking this pandemic?
I have no clue about 'Democrats ahead of Trump', but ignoring WEEKS of WARNINGS from U.S. INTELLIGENCE SOURCES would be the first place to start placing blame.