By which metric? What? It's not an all or nothing game. But if you're going to blame Trump for COVID deaths, then you need to somehow come up with the amount of deaths TRUMP is responsible for that wouldn't have occurred if Trump were not here. The massive death rates we saw in New York and other similar states because of the disasterous policy around nursing homes is not Trump's fault. Tt would have happened regardless of who the President was. I'm OK blaming Trump for COVID deaths if you want to talk about how we can come up with that number, and why. You don't seem to want to do this, you just want to scream to anyone who will listen what a horrible person Trump is and why. I'm OK with you feeling this way about him, but for God's sake, have some data driven reasons or just say "I hate the guy, so be it". But don't expect me to simply accept this because you consider it so. I am defending Trump on this point. I don't believe you can lay 238k deaths at his feet like you are so haphazardly doing. I have not once defended him as not being a lying sociopath. I have said that Biden is also a lying politician, though I do not believe him to be a sociopath. So you want to understand why more than 60 million people voted for one lying politician over another. As I said before, this is SIMPLE. They don't share your opinions on which of the snakes is worse than the other. Asparagus.
All of the experts said that if people exercised vigilance earlier then there would have been far fewer fatalities. Meanwhile, Trump downplayed the virus.
Complete nonsense. Pfizer financed everything but the research was from a German-Turkish couple. Pushing Pfizer made no sense as they did not do the research and development. Scientists who do research cannot be pushed. They do research and they find what they find when they find it. They cannot work "more quickly". These are the people who invented the vaccine: In a record time of barely ten months, BioNTech developed a vaccine against the corona virus together with the American Pfizer. While Pfizer largely funded the search, the breakthrough technology comes from BioNTech - a German company founded by children of Turkish immigrants. In January, Ugur Sahin (55), professor of oncology and CEO of BioNTech, saw an article from the renowned scientific magazine The Lancet. In Wuhan, China, a new corona virus had an ugly house. While there was far from being a pandemic, the researcher correctly estimated the risk of global spread. With his company BioNTech - which he had founded in 2008 with his wife Özlem Türeci (53) - he researched cancer drugs, but together with his wife he immediately decided to shift the focus to the search for a vaccine. Their groundbreaking technology could also be used for this, they thought. This was what the world would need. And whether they were right. Cancer treatments As a four-year-old boy, Ugur Sahin came to Germany with his parents. While growing up in Cologne, his father worked in a Ford factory. Sahin later went to study medicine. In a hospital in Homburg he specialized in cancer treatment. There he met his wife, physician and immunologist Özlem Türeci. She was born in Germany as the daughter of a Turkish doctor. It was this couple's fascination with cutting-edge new cancer treatments that would make them so successful - eventually resulting in a corona vaccine. In 2016 they sold their first pharmaceutical company, Ganymed, for 1.4 billion euros to the Japanese Astellas. With BioNTech, based in Mainz, they had already started to develop a wider range of cancer treatments. "Lichtgeschwindigkeit" But when corona broke out, Professor Sahin gathered his team and told them that BioNTech shifted its focus to the virus. “We have to find something. It's our job, ”he said. Leave was canceled and a team of 40 employees was deployed on the project that was named "Lichtgeschwindigkeit" - it would be necessary to work at the speed of light. After many trials with candidate vaccines, the substance called BNT162b2 came out on top with an efficacy of more than 90 percent. State-of-the-art technology The company used the ultramodern mRNA technique for this. “Based on the genetic code of Covid-19, which was put online by Chinese researchers on January 10, a piece of genetic material has been created that is injected into humans. The body then produces a protein and then antibodies against the virus. When confronted with corona, the antibodies anchor on all protrusions of Covid-19. Rich Thanks to their business successes, Sahin and Türeci have risen to the 100 richest Germans with an estimated fortune of 2.4 billion euros. But the couple has always remained humble. Sahin still teaches at the University of Mainz and goes to meetings by bicycle. “He is humble and modest. Outward appearance means nothing to him. He wants to create the structures that allow him to realize his dreams, which is where his ambitions are far from modest, ”Matthias Theobald, a colleague from the University of Mainz, told Reuters. While Sahin and Türeci continue to build on their dream, they change the world.
Nobody at Pfizer nor in the entire US developed the vaccine that Pfizer now touts as having been developed in-house. BioNTech in Germany developed the vaccine all on its own with financing from Pfizer. Hilarious how this fact is completely unknown to anyone in North America. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...-the-successful-pfizer-covid-vaccine-12128862 What a slap in the face of Trump: The vaccine is announced days after the election. The vaccine was entirely developed outside the US. The vaccine was developed by 1st gen and 2nd gen immigrants in Germany. Ouch.
I never said he was directly responsible for 238k deaths. But based on what was avoidable according to experts, he's good for about half of them.
Maybe. Maybe not. Unless you have a mathematical way of determining how we get to this number, is nothing more than speculation and subjective rhetoric.
The forecast was for 2.2 million deaths this year from Kung Flu. If the number is actually 238 thousand right now, I'd say he has presided over resounding success.
Great. So if we were to simply go with this number you're offering up (119k) and take it as the example, shouldn't we calculate the per capita number off that when we are saying that Trump had the "worst performance"? We should then rank Trump against other world leaders?