Yep, I'm sure to you any evidence that any result of Trump's fart-in-a-hot-skillet decision making style is anything less that divinely inspired brilliance simply sounds like "blah, blah blah." I have a lot of friends who feel the same way. Any narrative like that simply doesn't make sense to them must be resultant of low testosterone. I can't argue with logic like that ... I mean I can't even find some logic to argue with.
Crock, it's all about balance. There's room for criticism of the early response, though even that is mostly applicable to stupid-*** things Trump said more than anything we did or didn't do. The flagrant Monday-morning quarterbacking is silly. When this stuff was first happening, I heard lots of Democratic criticism. I didn't hear much in terms of specific and concrete plans for handling things better, and there's no reason to assume that a Democratic president would have.
And of course, as usual the credibility of the critics is weak. First, everybody knows that there is no course of action Trump could have taken at any point that would have gotten meaningful accolades from Democrats or from CNN, the Washington Post, or the New York Times. They were going to crap on whatever he did or didn't do. It's as predictable as the sunrise.
Second, many of the criticisms are stupid, petty ****. They play the race card about him calling it the Wuhan virus. What about the Spanish flu? What about the German measles? Are those racist? It's just a stupid-*** point to raise in a time of crisis.
Third, they criticized and called racist one of the most important measures we've taken, which was cutting off travel from the location where the virus originated. To any remotely intelligent adult, that is obvious common sense. Would a Democratic president have allowed travel to continue between Wuhan and the United States? If so, that is downright frightening.
So is there room to criticize? Sure. Trump shouldn't have been saying dumbass things early on. Furthermore, it's pretty clear (at least in retrospect) that testing wasn't handled well in the early phases. However, let's not go over the top with this. Overall, the US is dealing with this pretty well. In terms of cases per capita, growth, death rates, etc., we're doing better than many countries with government run healthcare systems that at least in theory should be better equipped to deal with this sort of thing.
