Trump was a disaster on COVID. There was No Good, just the Bad and the Ugly.
Make no mistake, Trump outsourced his presidency to Anthony Fauci, a power mad psychopath who HATED Trump, and Deborah Birx, aka Scarf Lady and power mad low level bureaucrat.
As an independent voter who voted for Trump, his legacy is one of disappointment and especially on his handling of COVID. How in the hell did we get from 15 days to flatten the curve or slow the spread to years of government tyranny on a global scale complete with draconian lockdowns that literally nuked the global economy? Why was Trump so willing to give Big Pharm an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to pump humanity full of an untested COVID drug aka mRNA gene therapy? More importantly, why did Trump literally outsource his presidency to Anthony ‘Fuhrer’ Fauci and Deborah ‘Scarf Lady’ Birx?
Instead of admitting that he made a mistake, Trump’s bloated ego resulted in his boasting about how he’s the father of the mRNA gene therapy jabs.
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Even after it became obvious and well documented that the COVID jabs were resulting in serious side effects, sickness and even death, Trump refused to admit that he made a mistake. In fact, the unvaccinated had a better chance of surviving COVID than the vaccinated.
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In a weird twist or irony, it’s Trump supporters who mostly opposed the COVID jabs but they still worship him anyway and despite all the truth that has been emerging. Dr. Scott Atlas, perhaps the only honest person on the Trump Coronavirus Task Force, ending up resigning and wrote an outstanding book titled A Plague Upon Our House. Jeffrey Tucker of the liberty advocating Brownstone Institute wrote an amazing review on the book and he even gave Trump the benefit of the doubt by suggesting that Trump himself was betrayed.
A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas’s Masterpiece on the Covid Disaster
I’m a voracious reader of Covid books but nothing could have prepared me for Scott Atlas’s A Plague Upon Our House, a full and mind-blowing account of the famed scientist’s personal experience with the Covid era and a luridly detailed account of his time at the White House. The book is hot fire, from page one to the last, and will permanently affect your view of not only this pandemic and the policy response but also the workings of public health in general.
Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true. Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional story (including Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason both before and during his time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood any chance of controlling the virus while causing tremendous damage to the people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of people around the world.
If you have heretofore believed that science drives pandemic public policy, this book will shock you. Atlas’s recounting of the unbearably poor thinking on the part of government-based “infectious disease experts” will make your jaw drop (thinking, for example, of Birx’s off-the-cuff theorizing about the relationship between masking and controlling case spreads).Throughout the book, Atlas points to the enormous cost of the machinery of lockdowns, the preferred method of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx: missed cancer screenings, missed surgeries, nearly two years of educational losses, bankrupted small business, depression and drug overdoses, overall citizen demoralization, violations of religious freedom, all while public health massively neglected the actual at-risk population in long-term care facilities. Essentially, they were willing to dismantle everything we called civilization in the name of bludgeoning one pathogen without regard to the consequences.
No, it’s not a pretty analysis of what went on in the Trump White House during PEAK pandemic, a pandemic aka plandemic that turned out mountains of human and economic casualties directly attributable to the common flu but perhaps also a flu hatched in a Chinese lab funded by Fauci’s Gain Of Function Research.
The global stats of Coronavirus are mindboggling. Johns Hopkins University maintained the most complete data base on COVID stats, here. Globally, 6.8 million died from COVID according to Johns Hopkins. A lot of crazy things happened during the COVID hysteria. Much has been written about how nursing homes with a ton of sick, elderly folks were loaded with COVID patients. The elderly died in droves because of that decision; in fact, they died miserable lonely deaths because they were not allowed to die surrounded by loved ones. Other data involves creepy discrepancies like flu deaths being low to non-existent, as if everybody who died of the flu suddenly died of COVID. There are nasty stories about how hospital protocols were created to make make big profits for the hospitals and doctors and definitely not cure folks or save lives, and other horrifying stories evolves around a huge death toll resulting from powerful ventilators blowing out the fragile lungs of the sick and elderly.
This post is not about documenting the myriad of horrors and human suffering resulting from Trump Administration COVID policies and later the Biden Administration’s policies (that’s an ongoing story for later), it’s about Trump and how he alone laid the foundation for a nightmare of Biblical proportions to be exploited for profits and power. It’s true that a lot of blame can also be heaped upon the Biden Administration but without Trump’s policies, it would have been extremely difficult for the Democrats to exploit COVID to the extent that they did.
Trump is not a stupid man, he’s a boastful, ego maniac but stupid he is not. He knew that Fauci and Birx were power mad low level bureaucrats and he simply allowed them to control the COVID narrative. Why? It’s my view that Trump and his inner circle made the decision to capitalize on the Fauci/Birx narrative by weaponizing the issue to strengthen his 2020 prospects. In addition to granting Big Pharm powers that earned the industry billions in vaccine profits, Trump pushed through the Cares Act which added $2.2 trillion to the pile of debt. The Biden Administration added $1.9 trillion to Trump’s COVID spending. A ton of folks got a ton of free money and other benefits. In fact, the benefits were so great that when America started to emerge from the Trump/Biden lockdowns, employees were making more money by NOT working. Employers were stuck because they couldn’t get their workers back.
What was the Trump Administration thinking? Did it just assume that spending trillions would earn them votes in 2020? The Democrats are masters at voting buying but it just doesn’t work for Republicans. Trump’s contribution to the big pile of debt was $6.7 trillion. Trump was anything but a fiscal conservative; he loved spending money and ratcheting up the debt.
I believe that Trump welcomed COVID as an opportunity for him to personally capitalize on the plandemic, not monetarily but politically. He wanted to be the GOD that cured the Coronavirus and saved humanity and not that he cares a rats ass about humanity but because he needs to feed his colossal ego.
Like many, I’ve read a ton of analysis on Trump’s handling of COVID. It’s not pretty and in fact it’s totalitarian authoritarian. The best summary of the COVID horrors and lockdowns unleashed by Trump appeared on the Rational Ground substack blog because it clearly exposes the totalitarian schemes of the Trump Administration that ultimately enabled the Biden Administration and Democrats to build upon with more spending and continued lockdowns and restrictions. I urge folks to read the entire article but I’m reposting some critically important excerpts.
With global health experts initially warning that the virus was killing 3.4 percent of those infected—and the now-disgraced British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson churning out computer models that offered policymakers a false choice between mass death or mass lockdowns—Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services drafted a document aimed at containing COVID. It was on March 13, 2020.
Stamped “not for public distribution or release” and indeed kept from public view for several months, that document would guide decision-makers at every level of government and every sector of the economy in dealing with COVID-19.
In March 2020, the Trump administration unveiled elements of the document under the banner “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” Among other things, the document introduced us to phrases like “social distancing,” “workplace controls,” “aggressive containment,” and “non-pharmaceutical interventions” at the federal, state, local and private-sector level. These would include “home isolation strategies,” “cancellation of almost all sporting events, performances, and public and private meetings,” “school closures,” and “stay-at-home directives for public and private organizations.”
A PDF sheet handed out at the March 16 press conference said: “In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”
This was the blueprint for locking down and closing down our free and open society. With that one sentence, an attempt to nationalize the pandemic response, the Bill of Rights became a dead letter, free association was abolished, and free enterprise itself was put on hold.
He seemed to have no intellectual curiosity, no sense of history, no nuance or depth, no wisdom, not a modicum of humility to ask questions. And so, when the COVID crisis slammed into America, Trump was influenced by the last words he heard, impressed by the most maximalist course of action, and drawn to the loudest, biggest-bang advisors—people who had no interest in anything beyond their enclaved neighborhood of expertise, no grasp of the law of unintended consequences, no desire to try to balance public health with individual liberty.
The consequences were devastating—far worse than COVID-19 itself. Aimed at saving life, the lockdowns—ironically but predictably—were a hideous destroyer of life and living. The evidence is literally everywhere: a 25.5 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths, a 30 percent surge in homicides, huge spikes in domestic violence and child abuse, thousands of preventable cancer deaths and heart-disease deaths, decreased life expectancy and decreased earnings for a generation of children, every level of government utterly failed, hundreds of thousands of businesses shuttered, millions left jobless, tens of millions of Americans barred from gathering for worship, the devaluing of work, the expansion of government, the acceleration of dependency.
As a recent study conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University and Lund University concludes, the lockdowns were a “policy failure of gigantic proportions…the biggest policy mistake in modern times.”
Yet in the wake of all that wreckage and destruction, we are left to conclude that Trump has no second thoughts, no regrets, no apologies, no lessons learned, no remorse, no sense of responsibility.
“I did the right thing,” he has said about his response to COVID. Almost boasting, he huffs, “We closed the country down…I had to shut down.”
But it wasn’t the right thing to do—not in light of the prescient warnings of people like Donald Henderson, not in light of the Constitution, not in light of history.
He did not have to shut the country down. Other free societies did not imitate the PRC and lock down in response to deadly new viruses
None of this paints a flattering picture of Trump’s handling of COVID. With Trump running for president in 2024, his COVID policies should indeed weigh in as voters assess his COVID and other policies. He clearly displayed incredibly flawed judgment and may even have been motivated to literally nuke the global economy to feed his own outsized ego. With liberty hanging by a thread in America and government continuing to radically assault our natural rights and liberties, all I can say is Trump had his chance to lead and blew it.
DeSantis scares the crap out of me, I've no use for iron fisted rules, even when they do things I like. I am uneasy about a couple of things RFK has said, mostly environment stuff, he seems a bit up and down on the 2nd, but of the possible candidates so far he is my top choice also. My dream Ticket would be Spike Cohen with Tulsi Gabbard to keep Spike "presidential".
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