re: If the optimism of yesterday is legit, did the media screw themselve with the doomcasting?

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they're in the same boat with the medical cocktail they've decided to build a media wall around criticizing Trump over promoting

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more and more evidence is growing that #TrumpPills are a winner.

they are going to have a hard time walking that back

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100 - 200 thousand was the number put out by the Presidential Task Force

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Trump said on Sunday that he's optimistic that we can come in below the lower end of that number though

Honestly at this point if it's 60K deaths you probably have to say that we did a pretty good job of handling the situation.

Public health including pandemic-preparation cuts and lots of evidence that he spent energy on political messaging instead of actual preparation are what they'll argue (which is what you asked, right?)

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Nope. CDC used to have global health monitoring including in China. Trump slashed it and handed that role to WHO, which gets pushed around by authoritarian govts. We naively trusted WHO and used to have resources of our own that could've mimimized our damage. Every country in the world bends these curves eventually. But they're going to end up with massively different levels of economic disruption.

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You’re an inveterate liar.

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Public health including pandemic-preparation cuts

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This was proven false by the Obama appointee who formerly held the position.

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Were their models way off and wrong?

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Did Trump’s leadership and task force’s efforts save us from doom and millions of lost lives?

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The narrative will be painfully predictable.

1. Trump wanted to do nothing. Thus, the media should be thanked for challenging that approach and saving countless lives that would have been lost (according to the original apocalyptic models)

2. The 20k, 40k, 50k, who may die from this by November is still a huge number that could have easily been saved had Trump not waited so long to act

3. If/when we "reopen" the country there will inevitably continue to be people who die from covid-related complications. Thus, Trumps eagerness to appease Wall Street is the reason for those deaths...that could have been avoided had we simply remained under lock a key for (insert minimal amount of time their models show would have been effective)

In short, he'll get ZERO credit for the death toll falling well short of initial doomsday projections and FULL blame for all repercussions of this event. Rinse and repeat

We were left to rely on WHO because we degraded our capacity. Not arguing that this will become mainstream public opinion, but don't be surprised if you see this messaging.

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1. Trump wanted to do nothing. Thus, the media should be thanked for challenging that approach and saving countless lives that would have been lost (according to the original apocalyptic models)

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The fact the Trump so Quickly initiated the travel bans (and the subsequent push back from Schumer/etc “xenophobe!”) should debunk this claim pretty easily

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We were left to rely on WHO because we degraded our capacity.

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What was our former "capacity" to act in a place like China with regard to something like this? What exactly are you suggesting was dismantled that would have been able to do something differerntly here that would have possibly changed things in any significant way at all?