Originally posted by seer
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And if you're going to do another "but, but, what about the January travel ban?" see my response below. It is amazing that Trump's base keeps coming back to this minimal, ineffectively done action as if somehow Trump was a great visionary who saved the country. Other countries did it far better, far sooner (relative to their own infections), and his actions since have been chaotic and largely ineffective. Where we are seeing decisive action is at the governor level, including their "governors only" meetings. Funny that - why would the governors feel a need to hold meetings about interstate cooperation that explicitly exclude the fed when the entire reason the fed exists is to deal with interstate and multistate issues?
Yet even at the governor level, if you look at testing by state, the balance is telling. Trump won 31 states in 2016 and Clinton won 19. That's roughly a 3:2 ratio (actually, it's 3.1:1.9). If you look at testing performance across the U.S., of the 18 lowest states, 16 are states Trump won (so-called red states). That's an 8:1 ratio. If you look at the 18 top states, the ratio is 11:7 blue:red. Of the 8 states that still do not have shelter-in-place orders, all are red states. If you look at the dates when shelter in place orders were issued, red states (by far) delayed the most.
Why? In part because these states are filled with Trump's base and led by governors (and often legislatures) filled with Trump sycophants, and Trump has been wishy-washy on the virus, failing to take a solid "we have to do something" until finally acknowledging there was a pandemic on March 17th, three weeks after community spread was detected.
And you want us to praise him?
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