Coronavirus: COVID-19

**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.