I know I shouldn’t, but I’m going to get a little political for my first time on the boards.
Yeah, the reason the stock market is crashing in part is because of the coronavirus, something the entire government could have done something about, not just Donald Trump. But also because of Russia and Saudi Arabia oil disputes. There’s two MASSIVE issues going on in the world, and for the history books. All of this, and there was nearly a 10% rise in the Dow today. A big portion of the rise in the stock market was during Trump’s speech.
Y’all can hate Trump all you want. Himself, his staff, and the federal government in all definitely didn’t do everything they needed to do to prepare for a pandemic like this. The good thing is we will learn from this. Now, they need to prevent this issue from worsening. In the defense of the government, things happened extremely fast. The (known) spread in America happened in less than a week. Almost every country in the world wasn’t prepared when it hit. China is going to be able to get things under control because of their communist, dictator government.
Politicizing the virus is not the answer, just like politicizing what Obama and Joe did with the flu wasn’t and isn’t the answer. Trump and his staff should not compare what’s going on now to what Obama and Biden did. It’s a different situation. They need to strive for better, and learn from the Obama administration’s mistakes. Declaring a national emergency is a good start.