This is a question for ADULTS!! Im not a Trump guy. Or a Biden guy. I live in the real world with real responsibilities. So please...
On the matter of Covid. Understanding the restrictions the Federal government has, both morally and legally, in regard to forcing Federal laws and policies on the states....
What should the President have done, or should he not have done, that would have had a much greater positive impact?
If your really feelin frisky, try to restrain yourself from Monday morning quarterbacking......
The U.S. Federal Government is who taught both New Zealand AND South Korea how to handle a pandemic, not only by sharing in global cooperative projects and not only by South Korea and New Zealand both belonging to global task forces as member states, they even learned from mistakes they made while we avoided them,
so they also learned by just watching us, all in the past, like when presidential administrations took this stuff very seriously and did not LIE to the American people about it either.
"At the time, the World Health Organization was providing information on the threat posed by MERS. While Bahrain didn’t have cases of MERS at the time, the organization listed it as having had outbreaks in the past. While other countries like the United States added Bahrain to the list of MERS danger zones, Korea did not. When the businessman sought medical treatment for flu-like symptoms, public health authorities ignored the possibility that he might have had MERS because he had come from Bahrain. Ministry of Health and Welfare officials rejected the request for a MERS test from the Samsung Medical Center, arguing that the businessman did not meet the criteria for a diagnosis."
We used to cooperate on a global scale for things like pandemics, not treat it like it was an episode of "The Apprentice", which is exactly the script Trump followed, in the most cynical way possible.
It has become laughable, in a dark way, to listen to people who sound like abused wives, as you say what sounds almost like,
"Well, it's not like he doesn't have a reason to hit me, and he doesn't really hit me very much and he always says nice things to me afterward, so then I feel too good about myself to stay mad at him. I realize I can't change him but I love him."
Seriously, the last four years has been like listening to wives in abusive relationships, even from the men.
The whole COVID thing has been done to death already, and the excuses are pathetic, like
"South Korea is smaller than we are and they are an island nation (they aren't) etc etc quack quack quack."
It doesn't matter because SK is dotted with dozens of dense urban jungles, many with populations rivaling our own big cities.
SK is a fully modern, industrialized Western style nation, with some degree of democracy even.
So it is NOT even all that different.
None of the excuses has ANY merit whatsoever, because we have HANDLED pandemics in the past.
