throbster wrote: ↑Jan 5th, '22, 08:29
From September 2020:
With over 197,000 deaths due to the virus, as of Friday morning, the former vice president placed blame on President Donald Trump during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening.
“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive,” Biden said at the town hall in Pennsylvania.
He continued, “All the people. I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.”
What a despicable and blatantly dishonest thing to say.
I agree. Now will you agree that Trump said many despicable and blatantly dishonest things about the pandemic? For instance, he told Bob Woodward in a private interview on Feb 7 that the coronavirus was airborne, tricky and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.” Then told a group of reporters just a few weeks later, “I mean, view this the same as the flu.”
Or when the CDC changed the guidance and recommended everyone wear masks in March, Trump said “So it’s voluntary. You don’t have to do it. They suggested for a period of time, but this is voluntary,” Trump said at a press briefing. “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it.”
Or how about when he said this blatant lie: “I tell people, wear masks,” he said at the town hall. “But just the other day, they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it.”
Or how about this gem, telling everyone the people on the front lines fighting coronavirus were being dishonest about the numbers: “Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Waterford, Michigan, on Oct. 30. “You know that, right? I mean, our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say, ‘I’m sorry, but, you know, everybody dies of COVID.’”
Will you admit that these are despicable and blatantly dishonest things that Trump said? There are many more examples if you just bother to look. While Trump can't be held responsible for all covid deaths, he can and should certainly be held responsible for the blatant mismanagement of this thing from the start, which included the above and many other statements that undermined the people working to end the pandemic.
Source:
https://khn.org/news/article/lie-of-the ... ronavirus/