BarcaDeac
Well-known member
trump is an idiot and gutting the pandemic response team was really stupid and shortsighted
however, unless I am completely misunderstanding the current situation, China was (is?) deceptive regarding the severity of the outbreak, and I don't think there is much the US could have done to have the globe in a better place right now - the outbreak was going to spread throughout China and cross the border, and we can't have vaccines at the ready for a virus we don't know anything about
in other words, even with best efforts from the US, this virus was going to get out of control within China and elsewhere, and it was/is going to arrive on our shores
now, do I feel any remote shred of confidence that Trump will orchestrate anything approaching an effective response? of course not
I mean, it would be nice to already have a team in place working on this thing