There are five factors that led to over hundreds of thousands of Americans needlessly dying

[Snake Plissken]

1 Trump ignored the threat

Trump sent out 1,795 tweets in the months of January and February and not a single one of them was to warn Americans about the pandemic even after he was briefed on how widespread and deadly it was predicted to be, but he did manage to send out a few hundred Tweets to gossip about what he saw on TV during those months.

2 Trump intentionally manufactured drama inundating our airports with infected travelers

When he did finally begin tweeting about the COVID-19 pandemic he used it to manufacture drama and chaos at airports causing our international airports to flood unscreened infected passengers into our nation's cities resulting death trolls three times higher than the next closest nation.

3 Trump tried to force our country to return back to normal with no regard for reality

Trump Encourages Mask-less Protests Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-governors.html

It is factually undeniable that Trump is a greater threat to American lives that Al Qaeda or ISIS.

4 Trump went out of his way to make wearing live saving masks political

If Trump didn't start his War on Masks this pandemic would have been contained in the Untied States already, but he just couldn't help himself ... Full On Dоuchebag is his only mode of operation.

and lastly

5 Trump believes crises are meant to be exploited for TV ratings

Trump still can not comprehend that crises are problems which need to addressed and solved with the upmost sense of urgency. Whenever a crisis arises he instantly going into Used Car Salesman Mode and tries to con it away, as if he can make a crisis go away by selling it like a used car on the lot.


Pick a crisis ... any crisis

No matter what crisis you picked, based on past experience we can guarantee with the upmost certainty that Trump will make that crisis worse

[no_hypocrisy]

1. A personal corollary

In 1984, I was 26 and working in a NYC daycare center. I was the kindergarten teacher. I watched as, one-by-one, students contracted chicken pox. I didn't remember getting CP as a child but guessed I was immune. Not so.

One morning in the middle of July, like today, I woke up with a single small vesicle on my tummy. I knew what it was right away. I called my father, a doctor, that I believed I had chicken pox. He dismissed me out-of-hand, claiming I already had it. I was demeaned for being an amateur pediatrician. He didn't even say, "Let me see later when I return." More vesicles appeared, red and itchy and resembling small blisters. By the time Dad showed up that evening, I was covered head-to-toe. He had to concede to my "diagnosis". In the meantime, I had gone shopping for Aveeno Oatmeal Bath, Benadryl cream, had shortened my fingernails, and found winter mittens to wear to bed.

My point: Not that anything could have been done to stop the inevitable "progress" of chicken pox once it started, but my father, a doctor, refused to consider that CP at my age could have consequences after the condition had abated. He didn't even know whether I had had them and we lived together for more than two decades. I had to handle my situation alone and without internet to find useful information.

I ended up going to a dermatologist instead of a pediatrician as I figured scarring was going to be an issue.

[hunter]

2. Chicken pox in adults is dangerous!

Years ago I was working in a hospital and one of the patients was a young mother who'd caught it from her children.

She died.

I can't imagine how her family and friends suffered, but everyone on the hospital staff who had cared for her was devastated.

[Duppers]

3. Grief! Very sorry.

Your father sounds like my brainwashed, lifetime repub mother who dismissed ALL my concerns my entire life. And she refused to seek treatment for my brother's speech impediment which impaired him his entire life. (My siblings and I buried her last year without shedding a tear.)

My DH & I acknowledge some parallels she had with tRump's personality. If anything inconvenienced her, she pretended it didn't exist. "Power of 'positive' thinking" bullcrap.