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Because viruses spread? Wtf are you talking about?
They don't spread over oceans, dumbshit, unless you allow infected people to transit over them.
Trump was one of the first of the western leaders to close borders with China. He was called racist for it. Do you not remember what happened? It was like 2 years ago.
He didn't ever close the border with China, though. Flights from China continued to bring people into the US throughout the Trump administration and had not actually ever stopped.
Yes he did. Here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2020/10/19/when-did-president-trump-ban-travel-from-china-and-can-you-travel-to-china-now/?sh=75609f2f7484
Right, the "ban" that was no ban, as planes continued to arrive with passengers from China.
It's TDS. We can talk about what made COVID unique but crashfrog is the only expert who doesn't think it's unique.
What made COVID unique was that most people were asymptomatic. Meaning they didn't show symptoms. Yet, they could spread the infection. On average it took 5-30 days for the infection to show signs. That is unique as well.
What that means when trying to contain an outbreak is that it's very difficult to contain it. By the time China was admitting there was an issue, it had already spread across the world. Even if Trump had isolated every border in the United States, it was already here and would have spread.
This is nothing more than TDS in full force and ignoring the scientific literature.
What is often ignored is COVID wasn't that deadly. That is another reason why it spread so quickly. If COVID had the mortality rate of Ebola, we wouldn't have asked people to local down. they would have done it naturally.
The lockdown also was done too early and poorly planned. This was Fauci blowing his load way too early as he was drunk with power.
If we had someone like Anders in Sweden, we would have done much better. The man knows his stuff, speaks honestly and will admit his mistakes. The public loved him. Osterholm would have been a better choice as well. He spoke from knowledge and factually.