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I only see a donation picture. I have no money for propaganda machines

So you're saying it was much, much worse than a million, and the federal government took it because it made them look better?

Nice victim complex ya got going there. Deny the facts all you want, doesn't change what is well-documented.

Ok, I’ll bite, what do you think did happen during COVID?

I saw your username and still think we over paid.

All those down votes are what you get for trying to bring any logic and thought to the discourse. And we thought Lemmy would be better than Reddit, eh?

The United States was actually well set-up to defend against pandemics. After the ebola scare, the Obama administration created a task force to effectively respond to future infectious diseases, and a plan was written up to guide the U.S. through a potential pandemic crisis situation.

Purely out of pride, Trump disbanded the task force and scrapped all of the planning that was done during the Obama era, and then 2 years later was hit by the exact kind of situation the U.S. had planned for.

I can't guarantee that the U.S. would have avoided lockdowns, and the exact number of Americans killed by Trump's decision will always be nebulous, but it's very clear that his decisions before and during the COVID pandemic were harmful.

We had the most severe rate of COVID deaths in the world outside of Eastern Europe. That shouldn't happen in the most powerful country in the world. We failed to do the things we needed to early on and created a culture of misinformation because our president decided to play politics in a crisis.

Had we reacted as well as New Zealand, largely considered to have one of the better responses, we theoretically could have had 280k deaths instead of 1.2 million. (If we matched their death rate) Obviously population density and our countries complex system account for some of the difference in death rate, but it doesn't account for the enormous gulf between us and other wealthy countries. We are the only wealthy country in the world that had a death rate as high as ours. He bungled the response and likely got an extra half a million people killed. It's amazing that this fact alone didn't end his political career, but Americans suck at interpreting data.

He deliberately downplayed the infectiousness of the virus very early stages, and then spread anti-vaccine misinformation afterwards. As the US is a major air transport hub for, this also led to casualties in countries where it would have been a non-event. Early restrictions and screening on flights from China, then subsequent following of Fauci's recommendations would have made a huge difference.

He didn't do shit except tell people not to wear a mask and to shine a light up their asses.

Do you actually not remember 2020?

Well, he certainly didnt make it go away by easter, so thats a start.

Sure

Uh, what? What is your point here? That good people are going to die?

...yeah, we voted in Trump. Everyone knows.

We don’t deserve to leave this planet