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“tell me which action(s) did he do or didnt do that caused 160,000 deaths and counting”
The biggest one was banning all testing for weeks in February. We had absolutely no idea how bad the problem was. And we STILL do not have adequate testing capacity, SIX MONTHS LATER.
Another one was actively obstructing the delivery of medical equipment to where it was needed. The lack of protective equipment in nursing homes was particularly deadly. (But it is more fun to blast Cuomo.) Trump had his goons actually seize bought and paid for equipment. The Republican Governor of Maryland had to use his Korean-born wife’s contacts in her home country to get a supply of equipment shipped directly to Maryland and then had to hide it in a secret facility protected by the Maryland State Police to protect it from Trump’s goons.
Another one was deliberately creating mass spreading events when he finally banned travel from outside the US in mid-March (no he did not ban travel from China in January). People tried to beat the ban and created humongous crowds at the immigration and customs facilities at multiple international airports. That was probably the reason hospitalizations exploded here in NYC just a few weeks later, with tens of thousands of deaths.
Another one was his promotion of medical quackery in the form of hydroxychloroquine. He dissed experts who warned (correctly) that there was no real evidence for its efficacy. That made it difficult to enroll people into clinical trials either for hydroxychloroquine or for treatments that might actually work.
Another was promoting an end to shutdowns even as hospitalizations and deaths were exploding. It made people think incorrectly that they weren’t vulnerable. Unfortunately some of the Governors in his cult went along with him; we can see the results in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona. I remember discussions here about death panels; Texas got death panels but nobody seems to care because it was under a Republican governor that that happened.
Another is refusing to wear a mask in public.
I could go on, but you get the point. Essentially he did everything wrong at every turn. We could have been South Korea or Germany. Trump didn’t create the virus but he really screwed up.