You may think that you shouldn’t tell someone that they are dying of an incurable disease but do you not tell a country that there is a deadly disease out there and you should take precautions against it?
Bob Woodward’s tapes of Trump interviews Trump admits he knew how dangerous COVID-19 is back in the beginning of the year, however he says that he didn’t want to alarm the country so he downplayed it.
Trump deliberately played down virus, Woodward book says
US President Donald Trump knew Covid-19 was deadlier than the flu before it hit the country but wanted to play down the crisis, according to a new book.
BBC
September 10, 2020
Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal and is one of the nation's most respected journalists, interviewed Mr Trump 18 times from December to July.
Mr Trump is quoted as telling him the virus was "deadly stuff" before the first US death was confirmed.
Responding, the president said he had wanted to avoid causing public panic.
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Mr Trump indicated that he knew more about the severity of the illness than he had said publicly.
According to a tape of the call, Mr Trump told Woodward in February that the coronavirus was deadlier than the flu.
Okay I can buy that but I believe that was the wrong way to proceed, but it was a judgment call by him and then what did he do?
Behind the scenes did he mobilize the government? Did he contact the governors? Did he make plans on how to protect the country against the virus?
No.
He did nothing.
Absolutely nothing except to make light of the virus calling it a hoax.
Instead he blocked states from getting much needed ventilators and masks and confiscated them from the states. He mocked those who wore masks. He mocked Democratic states like Connecticut, Massachusetts New Jersey, and New York and he praised Republican states for not doing nothing.
Trump mobilized his base by calling it a hoax and politicized the virus.
As a result of his inaction the plague is still spreading.
As a result tens of thousands of people died.
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