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Originally Posted by goofyballer
How Trump fell short in containing the virus
While this is largely a retrospective, even just this about current times is WTF:
lol, just what the country needs to save it: Republican political operatives planning our COVID response, based on loyalty to Trump
wow
This is a bit outdated, actually, we peaked on testing in late July and are now performing closer to 700k tests a day, with results famously useless when you have to wait >a week to get them
Trump and Co are all in.
I think they now realize this is not just going to go away. They held on to that hope as long as they could but reality has kicked in.
And being the way Trump is they cannot reverse course and start doing what is needed to get this under control as it will beg the question why they did not do it earlier and thus point a finger of blame at Trump.
They would rather ride this out now and just hope it can be managed, even if at great cost.
This is where I don't want to soudn Joe6pack'ish but I think history will look poorly on good people like Fauci and the many in the Trump admin who quit and moved on, without raising alarms.
I fully get the conundrum Trump puts everyone in as they want to stay, be the adults in the room, and lead the US to better outcomes. I admire their attempts and the grief they take to do so.
But at a certain point, when you realize you cannot in fact, impact the poor decisions continually made, and that your presence is being used by him to suggest 'he is following experts', you must step down, and declare 'your guidance is incompatible with this administration and you need to move on'.
Sure Trump will then fill the roll increasingly with sycophants but that then does not allow him to escape the blame.
And yes that might cause some additional harm but it is, perhaps, the only way to get him eventually held to account.
Historians I believe, will look back at this time and more than Trumps self serving idiocy, more than the weak and enabling Senate, point fingers at the numerous advisors and experts and people in prominent roles who just stayed or left saying nothing and how that let Trump spin a veneer of following credible advice, when he was doing no such thing.