re: After Trump is elected and everything doesn't magically cost what it did in 2019

Correct, the pandemic response was due directly to the pandemic. No pandemic, no need for pandemic response.

But you’re not going down the road of using perfect hindsight to pick apart the decisions that had to be made in the moment, under the circumstances of that specific time, not what we’ve used past events and experience and things learned from literal history, are you? I’m not geared to take that notoriously looked down upon approach.