Very unlikely no deaths, near impossible, almost certain a lot less would have died though. The US is down there with Brazil in how abysmal the infection and death rates are.
No excuse for that in a country that wealthy, with that much health care infrastructure and resources. Trump makes all sorts of excuses, but the facts lay it at his feet. Claimed it would go away, claimed it was a hoax, recommended demon semen afficianado's treatment regimens, lies outright about the abysmal numbers, recommends opening up when it was idiotic to do so, ignores experts in lieu of bleach injections and putting lights up your rectum. The man is a fucking imbecile.
All the other developed nations are made up of diverse states/provinces/regions what have you. Right, left and center politics, obviously likely not as partisan. The only difference is a federal government that is grossly incompetent and a political party that deals in conspiracy theories and propaganda.
It's flat Earther level of insanity to believe the US' handling of Covid has been anything but atrocious. Americans are being treated like pariahs, can't travel anywhere, you would not expect that. Result of pathetically bad leadership. A moron who takes victory laps while he does nothing.
The death toll under virtually any other president would have been literal orders of magnitude lower, and the economic impact wouldn't be nearly as bad because of a competent and coordinated response.
In a relative sense, that lower number may as well be zero, because that's how bad Trump's response to covid has been.
If a George H.W. Bush had been President, I bet it'd have been the lowest possible death toll, more than any Democrat.
Wanna know why?
Because a reasonably intelligent Republican President wouldn't have been downplaying the disease from the start, and encouraging people to go maskless and consider it nothing more than just a flu And the right-wing authoritarians would have listened and done whatever the President said.
Any Democratic President would have reduced deaths, but not as much as a Republican President, because right-wing authoritarians would never listen to anything a Democratic President would recommend, even if it was meant to keep them safe.
Wanna know why?
This is pretty impressive projection and, shocking, it’s once again wrongly focused on liberals.Polls consistently show those rural deplorables hate the coastal blue staters much more than the other way around. There’s a reason why ‘owning the libs’ is a thing and ‘owning the cons’ is not. It’s because conservatives are blinded by hatred and contempt.
So if you actually believe this and are not yet again concern trolling, what is to be done to get conservatives to stop putting hatred first?
Racism is much more the cause than the result of lack of economic opportunity.
The stones are flying because the cops have murdered and brutalized people for decades with impunity. What people are saying now is, in effect, make the cops subject to the same laws as everyone else.
Exactly. Clear projection by conservatives, believing that because they hate libruuls, libruuls must hate them.
Libruuls want to unionize so all laborers have more rights and make more money. Libruuls want everyone to have universal health care, universal day care, higher wages, etc. Libruuls want oligarchs to have less power over politics and pay more in taxes. Libruuls want a bigger safety net for everyone, not just libruuls.
Rural/Conservatives who literally self-describe as "Real Americans" are the ones who've been screaming about elite east/west coast libruuls for decades, because their thought leaders tell them that east/west coast libruuls hate them. If they weren't right-wing authoritarians simply complying with their rightful authority figures, they'd have already figured out that it's not the libruuls who hate them. It's the rightful authority figures who use them for money and political power, never doing anything intentionally to better their situations. Scared and on-the-edge rural conservatives are just the way Republicans like their base.
Fear is a powerful motivator.
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