Build Back Better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Back_Better A Trump win would have guarantee the same reactions / result if another Pandemic was to occur. In contrast, a Biden win would guarantee we smarten up about a Pandemic and wouldn't need to shut down the economy and the world will truly look up to America instead of laughing at us. wrbtrader
I'm afraid that the world will always giggle when they think of us, for at least the next two generations. A nation doesn't just recover overnight from thinking a bozo clown lying ass conman criminal should be the leader of the free world. Every U.S. election in the foreseeable future will have the world wondering, "Will the Americans elect another clown?"
The Democrats shut down the economy so it would make Trump look bad. Unfortunately it made a lot of people very sad with no jobs. Kids had to stay home,ect. They created a big mess and they should be held accountable for it.
For perspective, the Spanish flu ran through America for about two years and killed about 650,000 Americans. Covid has been going for about 10 months and killed over 300,000 Americans. Trump looks bad because of the sickness and death from Covid. He didn’t need any help from democrats to look bad.
1918-1920? Man, nobody can possibly know how many people died from the Spanish Flu in the USA, as opposed to how many people died simply because of...1918! Oi!
And in fact, the Dem shutdowns probably helped Trump, by reducing the number of potential deaths. Regardless: StroyTeller and Trump now have four whole years to think about how Trump could have done better.
1918 wasn’t exactly the Stone Age, man. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
It was compared to today... "...With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly..." And then how did they identify people who died from the Flu, as opposed to being just old and shit? Same old same old. I just lost a relative today, 78 years old, due to a hip fracture recently suffered after a fall. Her sats with full-on oxygen mask was 60%. If they find her to have any trace of COVID in the blood, it will be labeled a COVID death, and NOT because she had fibromyalgia from the shingles, and her liver/kidney malfunctions, etc.
The Spanish flu pretty much ended WWI as all the soldiers were getting sick. 50 to 100 mllion dead globally, the American dead were fairly well estimated though as were all the developed nations. Less than 117k US soldiers died in WWI, (entered the war late) and a chunk of that was the flu. But it was a different disease, attacked the immune strong like H1N1. What is interesting is the virus was not especially bad, not a supervirus very different to other pandemics, just the extreme crowding of military men in the war seems to have let it break all firewalls of natural population seperation and it went exponential in a very real way. Its just not good for Trump as the US has an eye watering percentage of deaths vs population. No papering over this.