Would Hillary have managed COVID-19 better?

[keith99]

Better? Absolutely.

While there are issues in the U.S. pandemic response that appear to be systemic, Trump's response (especially downplaying the pandemic) did not help matters.

I have a hard time imagining how anyone could have managed things worse than Trump. He is a poor crisis manager.

Heck my number 2 dog could have managed things better that Trump. He would not have done anything, which means he would not have done so much to make things worse.

 

[ZNP]

Is this sarcasm?

I cant really tell.

nope, the day of the Lord is fast approaching.

 

[keith99]

nope, the day of the Lord is fast approaching.

My Grandmother heard that claim when she was a child. I expect no such thing will happen before my death and we will still be hearing the same thing you are saying well after the generation after me is all gone.

 

[ZNP]

My Grandmother heard that claim when she was a child. I expect no such thing will happen before my death and we will still be hearing the same thing you are saying well after the generation after me is all gone.

Let's not wait that long, I'll put this in my calendar and lets see where we are 1 year from now.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Wake up, this is the Festival of Trumpets, it is the end of the age, prepare to meet your God.

Always be ready. The end of an individual is much more likely than any end of world. But end of the age I see a different concept. Indeed we have entered a new age. No doubt about that. We have seen the end of the age of carefree do as you please.

 

[driewerf]

I know, democrat say Trump bad democrat good...

It's a 4 yr old song now of which everyone is familiar with the tune.

No. That's not what I said. What I said is this: on different occasions trump has or done things that made a coherent response more difficult. He has shown a huge (sorry, yuge) incompetence. He has failed "bigly". At least some of these mistakes wouldn't have been committed by Ms Clinton.
Instead of uniting the US in a fight against a common enemy has been divisive and hindered people who were tackling the pandemic. His famous "Liberate ...." tweets were an example. He has used his the presidential platform, not to inform people but the spread disinformation, to insist on passivity ("It will be gone like a miracle") etc.
He has spent time tweeting about statues and even about his time on the golf course. He has been downplaying the use of face masks etc. These are things that any other politician R or D would have done so much better.

 

[Kenny'sID]

No. That's not what I said.

I know, that's what I said.

It's too bad the virus cant be deleted or shredded, if that were the case Hillary would definitely have been able to do a much better job of dealing with it.

 

[ZNP]

Always be ready. The end of an individual is much more likely than any end of world. But end of the age I see a different concept. Indeed we have entered a new age. No doubt about that. We have seen the end of the age of carefree do as you please.

Yes, the end of this age is not the "end of the world". The Great Tribulation will be great, it will be tribulation that we have never seen and will never see again, but it isn't "the end of the world". Too many people have no spine and turn to jello when they see the wrath of the Lord.

 

[ArmenianJohn]

Honestly, I’m not certain. But I’m sure she respects medical science and would have been much more receptive to the advice of qualified experts. I doubt she would have emphasized maintaining economic growth over limiting the spread of disease to the degree that Donald Trump has.

I’m just curious as to what others think.

Hillary would have been worse than Trump on many things, especially war-mongering and catering to big money interests. But on this she would have done much better than Trump. I don't think anyone would be as bad as Trump in handling Covid, I'm even surprised at how poorly he's handling it, and I don't think much of him to begin with. This is the worst of everything he's done (or in this case failed to do).

 

[Kenny'sID]

I have to wonder just how many lives Trump saved by banning travel from China alone when he did, and if the humongous amount of those lives he may have saved there immediately and with the trickle down affect far surpass any wrong he may have done.

And that's not to say he did anything any more wrong than anyone else would have done. It's a pandemic, people are going to die. Who here could have done better?

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

I have to wonder just how many lives Trump saved by banning travel from China alone when he did, and if the humongous amount of those lives he may have saved there immediately and with the trickle down affect far surpass any wrong he may have done.

And that's not to say he did anything any more wrong than anyone else would have done. It's a pandemic, people are going to die. Who here could have done better?

Me. I could have done better. I’d be willing to bet an obscene amount of money that I would have done better. I would have listened to scientists. I would have known the best way to save the economy is to get rid of the virus and would have acted accordingly. I wouldn’t have told people to “liberate” their states. I would have taken responsibility.

 

[loveofourlord]

I have to wonder just how many lives Trump saved by banning travel from China alone when he did, and if the humongous amount of those lives he may have saved there immediately and with the trickle down affect far surpass any wrong he may have done.

And that's not to say he did anything any more wrong than anyone else would have done. It's a pandemic, people are going to die. Who here could have done better?

None, because it had already arrived from europe by then.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Not sure what gave you the idea I had a problem with that,.

What gave me that idea were your posts sniping at responses to the OP, like this one:

I know, democrat say Trump bad democrat good...

It's a 4 yr old song now of which everyone is familiar with the tune.

Hillary would have been worse than Trump on many things, especially war-mongering and catering to big money interests.

I’ll give you the war-mongering, but idk about the catering to moneyed interests. He’s certainly tried to do his part on that front.

I have to wonder just how many lives Trump saved by banning travel from China alone when he did, and if the humongous amount of those lives he may have saved there immediately and with the trickle down affect far surpass any wrong he may have done.

Probably very few given that he didn’t completely shut down travel from China, those travelers who did come from China weren’t subject to rigorous screening, and the first, more fatal wave in the northeast came from Europe.

And that's not to say he did anything any more wrong than anyone else would have done. It's a pandemic, people are going to die. Who here could have done better?

Many, many people could have done better merely by virtue of their greater communication skills and ability to discipline themselves in public.

 

[stevil]

Probably 99.99% of the people would have addressed the pandemic better than what Trump and the current administration did.
So yeah, Hillary probably would have done much better.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Not sure... I guess anything's possible, but my gut feeling is that if she chose to not shut down (which there's strong evidence that neither side was keen on that initially in the time it would've counted), many outlets would be instead comparing this to H3N2 or Asian Flu instead of trying to constantly draw parallels to Spanish Flu...and using that as a potential excuse for any economic blemishes that may have existed on her first term.

"Employment numbers are down, but she's done the best she can given the really bad virus outbreak this year" would likely be the talking point.

 

[KCfromNC]

None, because it had already arrived from europe by then.

Maybe he saved some people in China from getting infected?

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

I know, that's what I said.

It's too bad the virus cant be deleted or shredded, if that were the case Hillary would definitely have been able to do a much better job of dealing with it.

Which all the worse things Trump has done. You really still on this.

 

[Kenny'sID]

Me. I could have done better.

Another empty claim.

 

[Kenny'sID]

Which all the worse things Trump has done. You really still on this.

Yes.

 

[Kenny'sID]

What gave me that idea were your posts sniping at responses to the OP, like this one:

You were wrong.