A bunch of the GOP, including Trump at the forefront, just failed to understand that the only way to prevent economic devastation was to face the Covid issue and deal with it.
They never understood that there was no way to magically avoid economic damage. The shit was going down. It was never a choice between facing lives or saving the economy. I mean, even if that was a choice, it seems like one choice is obvious, but it was never that choice anyway.
The only way to save the economy, was to save the people. You couldnât just open up the economy while the pandemic was ravaging the population, because people donât want to go see a movie when it means they or their family might literally die. No one actually gives that much of a shit about dinner and a movie.
The smart, obvious move was to do what a country like me Zealand did. Certainly, it would have been harder here, but it still could have been done if we had actual leadership. Trump could have said, âok, we are going into lockdown across the country for 4 weeks.â
That would have done it. It would have worked. While 4 weeks of lockdown works have sucked, it would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the drawn out mess weâve had going on the for past 18 months.
Trump could have done this, and it would have worked, and he would have been reelected. Literally, all he had to do was exhibit moderately competent leadership that was focused on something behind the immediate present.
But he couldnât. He kept thinking that the answer was to just lie about covid, and say it wasnât that bad. But this obviously didnât work. John Oliver pointed out that this wasnât a case of choosing one bad thing or another⌠It was choosing one bad thing, or BOTH bad things.
Trunk tried to just bullshit his way through it, like heâs done for literally everything in his entire life, and it didnât work because you canât bullshit viruses. Because they are fucking viruses.
