The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

[deadheaddawg]

I've seen a lot of people on this board go political in some form or fashion. For the ones doing that what would you have asked our government to do differently?

Trump played down the severity in the beginning. Making it seem a lot less severe than it was. And it wasn't a big secret. The world knew this was severe. When we had our first cases he said it was going to be fine......south Korea had theirs at the same time and knew it was trouble and had been preparing. Media places like the BBC, PBS, NPR, ect were full of warnings from leading experts all over the world.

And so you have the president give the impression that we were going to be ok and it wasn't a big deal.....way after the fact that it was clear to those paying attention that it was.

So that is a big reason why we had so many people in this country running around saying it was "the media's fault" and it was "overblown"

Americans have not taken this seriously enough. They didn't act fast enough. We still are not doing a good job social distancing. And the attitude of the president plays a big role in that.

There are other issues that I think we end up reflecting poorly on him from a policy and behind the scenes standpoint, but in fairness I don't think we have all the info on those and it would just least to a political back and forth since that still an ongoing issue. We need to keep politics out as best we can

But since you asked, and since we have all seen what he has said publicly I think it's pretty clear he played it down in the beginning