What does closing the border down or not have to do with testing, social distancing, protective equipment, or ventilators?
Had Trump nailed that stuff, he'd be a hero and cruise to re-election.
Hell, had Trump nailed border closures and airport management he may have cruised to reelection by punting on social distancing, testing, and PPE to local government discretion. All he had to do was take it seriously in speech and action and not use it as a vehicle to continue his asinine anti-Chinese narrative while claiming it wasn't a big deal here. I mean, FFS, the guy claimed on February 26 (almost a month post-pandemic declaration) that we'd be at 0 soon.
Restricting travel from the Wuhan area made sense in January. What didn't make sense, if that was your containment route, was leaving other international travel unaffected when coronavirus was already in Europe on 2/1. So it's a tall order to give dipstick any praise for border management and travel restrictions when we had C19 regularly hitting JFK airport for 30+ days. Then when he did act, he had to be reminded that the UK and Ireland were part of Europe, and he had no rational plan for not making a clusterfuck out of our international airports when he did announce broader restrictions.
You also lose a great deal of moral leadership to do these difficult things when your default policy for years has been one of xenophobia and hostility to any political leader who isn't a buttlicking toad. Believe it or not, we've had crises in this country where the President and opposition party are effectively on the same page.
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