The problem now is that so many people, in so many fields, relayed that "everything's safe, if you disagree or dare casting doubts you're an a ti-science sociopath", that it's going to be super super hard for them to admit they were wrong.
Mishandle? They got the vaccine rolled out by August and September to start production.
One of the few things Trump did correctly was the early pandemic handling while the cries of "stop travel from China" was called racist and unnecessary.
There was nothing else that could have been done except fire the head of the CDC after their flip flop politics instead of science.
> One of the few things Trump did correctly was the early pandemic handling while the cries of "stop travel from China" was called racist and unnecessary.
Except it was because by that time the horse was long out of the barn and the China ban failed spectacularly. cases were already here and also coming in from Europe. If it didn’t fail why did we get a Covid pandemic?
At that point what was needed was massive testing rather than the denialism the trump admin presented. And they failed massively at testing and public education.
The whole point of what was being messaged at the time, and why we went in to hard lockdowns, was to slow the spread. It makes sense to restrict travel from the place that probably had the most infections at the time if that’s your goal.
It was literally everything else he did, and more importantly things he DIDN'T do that were terrible.
Remember that "smart people" warned Trump when he came in that this was something they expected for a while now, and that we had experienced very lucky outcomes in the close scares we had in the early 2000s. Obama warned Trump coming in to be ready for this. What was Trump's response to all these warnings from experts? He sold off the United State's strategic reserves of PPE to hucksters he knew that set up shell companies and fired all the "pandemic quick response" teams that had been set up by previous administrations
