Trump didn't let covid run its course. Trump did the anathema thing in modern America of practicing healthy federalism and trusting the states to run their own pandemic responses rather than engaging in totalitarian overreach like Zero would have. Some states did a fantastic job, some VERY WELL KNOWN STATES showed themselves to be potemkin villages with empty figureheads for Governors. I'll let you decide which is which.
How many of those were really covid deaths, first off.
If it's the national average of 6%, I'm gonna call 5000 people for 52 million to get their lives back a fair trade. But let's go ahead and argue it's probably higher than 6% because they didn't pad their death stats for federal funding. If say it were probably 25-35k, based on how the flu trends in most years, plus some allowance.
Hell, let's give them the full 85k. 85k people with the average age of death at 86 is worth 52 million people getting their life back
Edit: second off, it's SUMMER. People have the lowest chance of spreading it and the best odds of beating it right now. Hiding people away till fall is completely counterintuitive(then again, I said that last year, too)
Just short of saying Trump was right to let covid run its course.
Trump didn't let covid run its course. Trump did the anathema thing in modern America of practicing healthy federalism and trusting the states to run their own pandemic responses rather than engaging in totalitarian overreach like Zero would have. Some states did a fantastic job, some VERY WELL KNOWN STATES showed themselves to be potemkin villages with empty figureheads for Governors. I'll let you decide which is which.
God bless Governor Henry McMaster
"at the cost of millions of lives"
... That's a lie. Texas has 50k. Florida had 35k.
How many of those were really covid deaths, first off.
If it's the national average of 6%, I'm gonna call 5000 people for 52 million to get their lives back a fair trade. But let's go ahead and argue it's probably higher than 6% because they didn't pad their death stats for federal funding. If say it were probably 25-35k, based on how the flu trends in most years, plus some allowance.
Hell, let's give them the full 85k.
85k people with the average age of death at 86 is worth 52 million people getting their life back
Edit: second off, it's SUMMER. People have the lowest chance of spreading it and the best odds of beating it right now. Hiding people away till fall is completely counterintuitive(then again, I said that last year, too)