You know, right from the beginning, Trump was responsible for his supporters' beliefs. He delayed even announcing that there was a pandemic. He refused to wear a mask (because he claimed it would make him look "weak") and he told lie after lie after lie about where the pandemic was going.
He denigrated Dr. Fauci and told people that Covid was no worse than the 'flu.
He claimed that the vaccine had not been available until five days after the 2020 election so that Joe Biden would win.
But he sowed the seeds of doubt in his supporters' minds, that social distancing, mask-wearing and being vaccinated was for weak-minded individuals. They believed that Covid was a left-wing conspiracy and that the vaccine was dangerous and that Bill Gates wanted to put a microchip in everyone, right from the beginning.
It made no difference that he then told people that they should get vaccinated and boosted - it was too late, and people started to boo him at rallies where he said this.
Truly he has blood on his hands.He only did a U-Turn with regard to vaccinations when he realised that his supporters were dying off in droves.
Trump is also responsible for hate crimes against Asian Americans resulting from Trump's persistent use of the phrases "China Virus" and "Kung Flu".
True, absolutely true.
Trump is the devil’s cum.
Regardless we need to do better next time. We need to revise our pandemic plan and approach. We need to better coordinated gov't agencies. We need to work with industries to ensure next that we have testing early and often.
Trump "started it" for sure. The irony is, if that dumb shithead had just done a good job pretending to care and do the right things with the pandemic instead of worrying about his re-election, he would have easily won re-election.
"He claimed that the vaccine had not been available until five days after the 2020 election so that Joe Biden would win."
Honestly, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was ready before the election, but was delayed until a few days after out of spite due to all the chaos he caused.
Anyway, while Trump gets a lot of blame, this thinking that it's all his fault is overly US centric. Other countries have anti-maskers, anti-lockdown protests, anti-vaxxers. Yeah, we have it worse than other western countries, but we ALWAYS have it worse than other western countries when it comes to anything involving healthcare and our populace's attitude toward it.
When Trump tells his supporters to get vaccinated, they boo him and GQP media personalities go after him. When he goes after DeSantis for playing coy about whether he's boosted, they go after hiim.
I don't think he contributed all that much to anti-maskers and anti-lockdown folk, and he didn't contribute at all to anti-vaxxers. Trust me, I think he should be rotting naked on a stone floor in solitary confinement in gitmo for his attempted insurrection, but the right itself is largely responsible for the piss poor way the populace handled everything. He made things a bit worse, but if 2020 had been, say, Mitt Romney's second term, I think we'd have still had the same issues among the populace even though we'd have had a republican president who urged everyone to do the right things. We'd never have been Canada or Japan. We'd always have done the worst of the western democracies.
Yes, the orange grifter gets all the blame for this shit. He has blood on his hands. You n addition, he gave the racists and bigots permission to come out of the sewer and spread their hate and try and take away the rights of all of us. It is impossible to say how much I truly hate the monster.
Along with all the financially motivated ghouls on far right media such as Fox, Newsmax, and OAN.
All of them vilifying scientists, and making false statements about the effectiveness of vaccines.
And even though he is systematically killing his supporters, they still want to vote for him and put him back in the White House in 2024.
God forbid.
Yeah. Because his out of shape, fat, orange, jowly appearance doesn’t make him look weak at all.
Not only did he refuse to mask—he refused to allow staffers around him to mask and distance, then drew his fans into large crowds (thus, Herman Cain). Even at his rallies, he refused to allow the venues to space people out for distancing. Not to mention the fake cures he parroted from quacks.
I still wonder what his brother died of. They never did release a cause of death.