I think a lot of grief could have been avoided if we didn't have the infamous "this is the flu" tweet.
Imagine if Dubya had stood on the 9/11 rubble and said "well we lose more folks to the flu annually, its not that big a deal". He could have a herculean response after that but that taste is going to be in everyone's mouth for a long time and will color perceptions. (Good thing he said "the folks who knocked down these buildings will hear us all soon!" and he earned like 90% approval because of it).
Trumps twitter feed presently is filled with him sending navy ships to help, and defense authorization act this and quarantine that and a bunch of stuff that's really pretty good. Which is why his numbers on the response presently are pretty good.
But he made sort of the boneheaded error of a being a denialist in the beginning, which makes his later tweets look weird because why would you do all this stuff for "just the flu"? To add insult to injury, on 9/11 it didn't really matter if we attacked now or some time from now (it took like 6 weeks I think), in public health in a pandemic, those were precious days lost that will never be gotten back before non-denialist Trump finally emerged.
Imagine if Dubya had stood on the 9/11 rubble and said "well we lose more folks to the flu annually, its not that big a deal". He could have a herculean response after that but that taste is going to be in everyone's mouth for a long time and will color perceptions. (Good thing he said "the folks who knocked down these buildings will hear us all soon!" and he earned like 90% approval because of it).
Trumps twitter feed presently is filled with him sending navy ships to help, and defense authorization act this and quarantine that and a bunch of stuff that's really pretty good. Which is why his numbers on the response presently are pretty good.
But he made sort of the boneheaded error of a being a denialist in the beginning, which makes his later tweets look weird because why would you do all this stuff for "just the flu"? To add insult to injury, on 9/11 it didn't really matter if we attacked now or some time from now (it took like 6 weeks I think), in public health in a pandemic, those were precious days lost that will never be gotten back before non-denialist Trump finally emerged.