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MartianManchild posted...

The same amount would have died if Hillary was president.

Sadly, this is probably more or less true. Trump has grossly mismanaged the situation as much as he's had the power to do so, but at the end of the day, he doesn't have THAT much power, and the whole crisis has been mismanaged at pretty much every level. Hillary likely wouldn't have actively discouraged believing in the virus by explicitly calling it a hoax, but a sizable chunk of the people stupid enough to believe Trump saying such things would also be stupid enough to categorically oppose everything Hillary said such that they'd refuse to believe in the virus anyway. She would have been on board with mask recommendations, but the same people would have refused to wear one because they view it as something only those pansy-ass lefties do.

Trump has made his mismanagement of the pandemic extremely public such that it's very easy to pick him out as a scapegoat for the entire country's failures, and he could very easily have done better in a lot of ways (like maybe not insisting that it didn't exist until it had already gained enough of a foothold to be undeniable), but it's just not that simple. This is a crisis that required decisive, restrictive action at every level of government and compliance from a populace that places some value in the safety of their fellow citizens, which means it was never going to go well in the land of "muh individualistic freedoms!".

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