I imagine in terms of medical care access and affordability or welfare stimulus, practically negligible, but in terms of CDC funding, science literacy, public policy, and general preparedness, it would be a whole lot better put together.
So I'd say... 10% fewer deaths? 200K vs. 220K deaths sounds about right.
Looking at the other countries that have mask wearing as an accepted and common practice.
Half is way too low for how well just wearing a mask protects you.
Combine that with social distancing measures that weren't actively derided by the president and yeah, we'd be a fuck of a lot better off.
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Surpress the urge to call everything you disagree with "liberal" for a second.
Look at the worst infected countries. US, Brazil, India. It's conservative leadership that causes this sort of massive pandemic fuck up.
There's no way Hillary would have done a UBI or something that actually benefited the struggling people like Bernie called for, but her or Obama would have let a Fauci lead the messaging and then would have fully supported it.
Embracing the USPS plan to mail a cloth mask to every person in the US, you think that wouldn't have had a massive impact? Trump scrapped that.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/postal-services-plan-send-650m-face-masks-americans/story?id=73081928
A socialist government would handle it far better than the Obama admin ever could, but the difference between Obama or Trump in charge during this truly would have been incredible.
India had some pretty strict lockdowns when everything started. My parents needed to get a permit to drive to a nearby city to get our grandparents.
There are lots of capitalist countries that are in better situations than the US though
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Under Trump they marched into a statehouse armed and have a whole cottage industry of covid conspiracy theories. It's hard to imagine them being more opposed to any sort of covid precautions.