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The_tall_midget posted...

Leftists then: "OMG, you can't close borders with China, THAT'S RACIST!"
Leftists recently: "OMG! Trump should have closed the borders sooner!"

Literally no one is saying this.

By the time Trump closed the border with China (notably, he was actually not the first leader to do so, as Japan, Italy, Russia, and North Korea had all implemented similar or more strict bans prior to Trump), the virus had already spread to the US. Closing the border at that point would not stop the spread of Coronavirus, because the spread was already happening within the country.

At best, Trump bought himself time. And the problem is he did almost nothing with that time. He didn't stock up on ventilators or other hospital supplies, didn't sound the early alarm about the virus, didn't ramp up testing, didn't do anything that would slow the virus's spread or mitigate it's impact.

Actually, even that's giving him too much credit, because doing nothing would have actually been an improvement over what he did do: spent the next six weeks downplaying the virus, promising that everything was under control, and accusing the Democrats and media of exaggerating the effects of a massive global pandemic purely to make him look bad. Only when the stock market crashed did he finally start to take notice, and by then it was far too late. Trump pissed away three months of advance warning about the virus and the US is now suffering for it.

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