It's barely even close. Everything that was horrible about Trump was presaged by Bush. He unleashed far more harm on the world than Trump did.

  • NotAnOp [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I used to think that early on too, but a little research of mine revealed that even some basic federal guidelines, sharing info from China early on, utilizing the Post Office for mask deliveries, and using OSHA for mask enforcement could have saved tens of thousands by itself. People would have died regardless, but Trump looks like he went out of his way to make sure it was maximum casualties.

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      that's the comparison to competent technocratic government

      now compare to George "Heckuva Job Brownie" Bush and I'm with @AKnightAlone

      this is actually a decent radicalization vector for the americans here--if you've got a lib in your life ranting about orange man, ask them about how well dubya handled katrina, or hell even how well bama handled 08 (riskier move, but if you can drill down into the collapse of black and brown homeownership you might strike a nerve)

      • read_freire [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        we'd probably have had a similar curve to the rest of the euro-controlled world where there was a significant curve-flattening in spring/summer but then shit spiked again real bad in october/november

      • AKnightAlone [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        My new theory I considered earlier last year, but something new hit me:

        Who got mega-bux easily in America? Bezos. Corona lockdown was pretty much not even a gamble if you were investing in companies and picked Amazon.

        Who makes like 90% of the shit on Amazon? Oh, yeah, that's right... It's those folks that had that military-linked virus lab right around where the outbreak supposedly started.

        My earlier thought was that it was engineered in a Chinese lab. Now, I realize there are some beneficial coincidental outcomes for China.