He literally disbanded the pandemic response team that would have alerted us much sooner to COVID and potentially even stopped it from spreading. Sometimes I forget and think "well, it's not his fault there was a pandemic" except it quite literally was.

so few of us remember this FACT

We killed sacrificed grandma and grandpa so the bankruptcy king could seem like he was a competent ruler

it was so awful

this dipshit told us to drink disinfectant and eat horse dewormer to cure it.

This was by far his most grotesque crime of all, and yet it's the one that'll never result in an indictment. No matter how many years pass it'll never make sense.

Don't forget the tests developed by WHO and Trump refused to buy them, he wanted them for free. He insisted we develop our own. Then the first big batch was defective and they had to start over. He made us go without tests for over a month when they were needed most.

The pandemic would have come anyways - he just made things far worse by dismantling the structures that were set deal with these events and underplaying just how deadly it was. It was a worldwide event though, no one could have outright stopped it.

sometimes i wonder exactly how bad mpox and the recent bird flu outbreaks could’ve gotten if trump was still in office. obvi there’s no way to prove a counterfactual like that, but i’m confident it would’ve played out *very* differently.

1) My general belief is that if Hillary had won, COVID would’ve been *significantly* less bad in the U.S. than it was, but also bad enough that Democrats would’ve been absolutely wiped in 2020. 1/x

"One day it'll all be gone, like a miracle" I think we'd have gotten hit anyway, with 50 separate states we were never going to do effective universal lockdowns, and workers would be forced in sick without paid leave, but he still made worse than it could have been