NickN
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Not any of the “major” countries as already defined…
And even if someone else did, Trump made a rather bold move at the time.
Imagine the lives saved, with USA having only a few positive cases being confirmed at the time to order the initial China travel ban.
tnt
797
huh?
What does voting for him have to do with explaining why others didn’t?
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Who holds the record for challenger?
An honest question lol.
Allan
Jezcoe
799
It wasn’t a full closure. It was a feel good measure that accomplished little.
Covid was already in Europe by then and travel to and from there wasn’t restricted until mid March.
It did quite little to stop the virus from getting here.
NickN
800
Saving even one life made it worthwhile.
Jezcoe
801
The virus came into NYC through Europe.
Kinda sorta shutting down travel to and from China didn’t help all that much.
NickN
802
Yes, we also heard that from Cuomo as he mandated hospital patients many with covid-19 back into nursing homes, even as the Mercy ship and other make shift hospital beds were sent in from the Trump administration to stop the spread. Same too is true in LA with another ship along with many other beds constructed throughout America.
A whole family from jersey died early on, son was coming back from Italy.
No one knew.
Allan
Jezcoe
804
Cuomo sucks and nobody likes him.
It was not election fraud that cost Trump the presidency. It was his inept handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that cost him the presidency. Demonstrably leaders who handled the COVID-19 pandemic competently won re-election and in some instances recorded historically resounding successes.
enki
806
he’s also a garbage human and always has been, that had something to do with it too.
JayJay
807
The first case was reported in the US in April 2009.
By November 2009, there was a vaccine and 3 billion doses were manufactured worldwide.
You were saying?
Additionally the Obama Administration was three months old when the crisis began.,
The Trump Administration, by contrast, had been in power three years and also had the H1N1 and Ebola panics to have learned from.
He has way outlived his usefulness.
Allan
So explain Trump not leading by example and wearing a mask early. Might that have convinced some to similarly wear masks and thereby save a life?
Explain Trumps decision to hold large indoor rallies without requiring masks? Do you think that might have saved a life?
Explain his Rose Garden event which was outdoors and indoors and did not require masks. Do you think had he required the masks that it might have saved a life?
If you want to make saving one life a criteria for action you’d best be consistent.
This is where NickN should say, “Thanks Obama”.
I think that is highly unlikely though.
JayJay
811
They did screw up and were slow to respond early on.
But they were three months to their administration in and didn’t have any other pandemics from which to learn.
Trump was three years into his term and had H1N1 and Ebola from which to learn. I love it when they try to compare.
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JayJay
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It is very telling that we are a year in and STILL this is the one thing Trump supporters hang their hats on.
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JayJay:
They did screw up and were slow to respond early on.
But they were three months to their administration in and didn’t have any other pandemics from which to learn.
Trump was three years into his term and had H1N1 and Ebola from which to learn. I love it when they try to compare.
The metric conservatives have been using is speed to vaccine. Under Trump, it took about 9 months which is great. Under Obama it took 7 months. Their metric says a “Thanks Obama” is in order. I don’t recall hearing that. 
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Correct, the opinion is shared by at least 81 million people
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He did easily win the election. Had he not downplayed the virus or have large gatherings of people at the WH the press would still have found ways to twist those into reasons to oust him, and the press would still have protected Biden from scrutiny. It was always going to be an uphill battle when most of the cultural and political forces were doing all they could to get the globalists back in the drivers seats.