Coronavirus: COVID-19

**Exo** · 05-29-2021, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

True. I think if the info had been made public last year about those three lab workers that came down sick before people at the meat market did, maybe there would have been a more serious investigation earlier.

It still wouldn't have made him give a sh*t about it ravaging the country. Or would it? If it meant sh*tting on China, would more Americans have taken the lockdown and mask wearing more seriously?

Anteater · 05-29-2021, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

It still wouldn't have made him give a sh*t about it ravaging the country. Or would it? If it meant sh*tting on China, would more Americans have taken the lockdown and mask wearing more seriously?

120% yes.

**Exo** · 05-29-2021, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

120% yes.

That's sad yo.

SGR · 05-29-2021, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

It still wouldn't have made him give a sh*t about it ravaging the country. Or would it? If it meant sh*tting on China, would more Americans have taken the lockdown and mask wearing more seriously?

Trump did care about it ravaging the country. It was an election year. Purely out of self-interest, he had to have cared. Whether his caring amounted to effective policy is obviously a different question.

I don't think that any investigation at the time could've proven the origin of COVID one way or the other. The situation would've likely gone done in much the same manner that it did in reality. Let's be honest, if Obama was still in office, Republicans would've been even more resistant to wearing masks - probably saying dumb **** like "The communist muslim-in-chief is trying to institute Sharia law!".

The point of trying to determine its origin now is to learn what caused it and adjust accordingly to prevent it from occuring in the future. Whether that means changes/regulations to wet markets or changes/stricter regulations to viral research.

**Exo** · 05-29-2021, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Trump did care about it ravaging the country. It was an election year. Purely out of self-interest, he had to have cared. Whether his caring amounted to effective policy is obviously a different question.

Were you, like, not around last year or something?

SGR · 05-29-2021, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Were you, like, not around last year or something?

Yeah, in fact I was. Some policies and initiatives worked, others didn't. A whole lot of people died as a result.

Trump gets credit for Operation Warp Speed and the hastened pace of vaccine development and a small amount of credit for shutting off travel from China early (it should've been earlier, but he got a lot of criticism at the time).

Everything else that went wrong falls on Trump's lap, de facto, as he was the President at the time ("the buck stops here" and all). That's one of the big reasons he lost the election.