Would have voted "Other" had the option been open. The handling of the pandemic is problematic. It was the quintessential "black swan" event and to judge how it has been handled it must be set against some contemporaneous example of which none exists.
Indeed, if anything, both former President Trump and President Biden are apt to be fall short. Particularly given the society's almost religious faith in science, it's assumption that it is entitled to perfect safety and perfect outcomes at the snap of a finger. Throw in then that, for all its caterwauling about government and politics, the public is quick to run to the Federal government for answers when, at best, human control of pathogens is apt to be uneven at best.
In this, and I state here that, though I am a Republican, I was no fan of President Trump, the criticisms of him were vaguely absurd. That his response was not perfect was inevitable. That it was nevertheless reasonably effective - not least in expediting the discovery and production of a vaccine - seems also self-evident.
This not least being that President Biden's own plan looks strikingly similar. Mask wearing, vaccine distribution, etc.. Indeed, CNN was recently compelled to withdraw a story claiming that the Trump administration had left no plan for the Biden team. It then appearing as if the Biden team, in claiming that they were having to "start from scratch," was looking to lower expectations for its' own performance going forward.
Indeed, this being further highlighted by the fact that less than 24 hours into his term, Mr. Biden's CDC Director has begun to backtrack on the President's campaign pledge to get 100 million vaccinations completed by the end of his first 100 days. It also being noted that the most recent statistics suggest that rate of vaccination has already been met.
To this then there was President Biden's Executive Order mandating the wearing of facial masks on Federal properties. Leave aside the fact that the wearing of masks is, by this point, pretty standard already even in the absence of a Federal regulatory requirement.
It was not long ago that President Trump, who issued no such order, was criticized for not wearing a mask. This being dubbed a "bad example," as if people were waking up in the morning wondering if Mr. Trump was going to wear a mask and allowing it determine their own decision on whether to wear a facial covering. It was absurd on its' face - pardon the pun.
Yet a mere 3 1/2 hours after signing his Executive Order, President Biden twice, his family and once his spokesperson all appeared on Federal properties absent a mask. His spokesperson, when asked about this replying that the President was "celebrating" and that the administration had "more important things" to worry about.
Suffice to say, the double standard did little for the credibility of President Biden's own stewardship - again a mere 48 hours into his term - of the pandemic. It not helping that, to date, every high profile hypocrisy on mask wearing has been on the Democrat's side of the aisle - see also Governor Newsom, DC Mayor Bowser, etc. The difference in Mr. Biden's case being that he was in violation of his own otherwise enforceable regulation.
No matter. Such are the pratfalls that Mr. Biden is apt to stumble across as he attempts to manage an unusual situation. Like President Trump as well, Mr. Biden should be given some latitude for error and the natural absurdities that come with them. He having the advantage of being able to follow in Mr. Trump's pioneering footsteps and thus perhaps learn from the example which his predecessor had to learn by trial and error.
So is the pandemic in "good hands" under Mr. Biden. As the old axiom goes, "Eh, good enough for government work."
He doesn't deny it exists. He doesn't deny it's a problem. He doesn't say it will disappear magically. He doesn't deny the science. He doesn't propose drinking bleach or sticking a light bulb up your ass.
Trump had a year to do something. He tried to take credit for the development of the vaccine which had nothing to do with America or him. We found out America was offered extra doses of the vaccine, and rejected it.
And as we just found out, his administration didn't have ANY plan for rolling out the vaccine. Not a god damned thing.
So yeah, the pandemic would be in better hands if my 5 year old took control
Biden is going to do fine. And Bidens critics are just fucking nuts, like Hannity's "Bidens' first day : 400,000 Americans dead" chyron. They are disingenous, they lie, they accuse everyone else of lying, and it is disgusting.
Better than it was prior, near fact at this point.
To be fair, no matter whose hands it is in, I don't think it's ever going to be in "good" hands. It's a pandemic, you're always fighting to make a bad outcome less bad at best, and more likely fighting to make sure the outcome does not get worse.
Much better hands than it was with the Cheeto man. The pandemic is going to go smoothly from here and things can finally start to be normal again.
Nothing is in good hands with him
No. And I will explain for several reasons.
1. When the pandemic first started, Donald Trump shut down travel to China. This was labelled Xenophobic by Biden and many Liberals. We now know that this was the right call and saved many lives.
2. We also know from studies that lockdowns are ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus and democratic run states like NY and California that have stringent lockdown procedures have overblown cases as compared to places like Florida where the lockdowns are not as severe and small businesses aren't ruin.
3. Biden plans to flood the country with 11 million illegal immigrants who we have no idea has covid or not. These immigrants are also not guaranteed to obey to mandate of following social distancing and will just increase the US population even more making the spread of the virus more likely to occur.
4. Riots that will occur due to BLM/ANTIFA are still going on. These will create super spreader events.
Lol, fuck no. He’s going to make bullshit rules that won't affect anything, but the media no longer has to make the pandemic a political issue, so now we see the media saying lockdowns didn’t help, we see lefty governors and mayors wanting to open up their economies.
And now the WHO is changing what constitutes a ‘case’. So we’ll see the numbers drop substantially, but that only proves what bullshit they are already.
Biden just put in a EO quarantining everyone who comes into the country from a foreign country on a plane. I hate to break it to his wrinkly ass but I’m not quarantining after my trip overseas in April.
I mean, all he has to do is cash in on the effort of people before him. Like literally, he just has to make sure the vaccines get delivered. I'm pretty sure doing nothing is his best corse of action considering it's already set into motion.
It's a little insane that less than a year and we have something like 3 vaccines rolling out.
All he has to do is not fuck it up. So I don't know what's his track record with not fucking things up that are already a sure thing?
I'm sure he is. I'm just saying that I wouldn't really consider the pandemic "in his hands" at the moment. It's kinda already been handled.
I mean, that would be like if we were building a skyscraper and one guy assembled the team and planned it out and did the foundation and shit. And when the frame is up someone else comes in, but all that's left are the windows and furnishing... Like are you really gonna sit there and be like "is it in good hands?"
Biden has NO PLAN other then telling everybody to mask, pushing federal masking laws that he himself has violated, very slightly increasing vaccination rates (they were already close to a million a day when Trump left office) and just scaring everybody with stupid depressing comments like “the worst is still in front of us”.
His goal is too underpromise and over deliver. But positive rhetoric is crucial for this nations morale when it comes to the pandemic. That doesn’t mean being cavalier like Trump was but that also doesn’t mean saying stupid things like “the darkest days are still in front of us”. No the darkest days were back in March and April last year when we didn’t know what the hell this virus was.
We do know much more now. It’s not going away any time soon but we can fight it. Complete victory is only a few months away if we can get mass vaccinations rolled out.
The country is in a tyrants hands now. He'll turn America into a Socialist Shithole. He and the democrats just want any control over Americans that they can have. Biden and the democraps don't give a shit about actual Americans. If they did they wouldn't helped much more years ago rather than continuing to bankrupt America and just saying what voters want to hear to get elected and/ or reelected. They don't actually give a shit about what Americans actually need. Biden is a puppet paid for by Soros.
It took biden what 4 hours to violate his own mask rules? His "plan" is to basically do what trump was already doing. Best hope is he doesn't make things to much worse
For ones who said no explain why we would be in better hands with Trump I he literally did almost nothing to help until it was to late and everyone should remember its literally only been 3 days so you can judge anyone who's running the country in 3days and if you say he got the vaccine go look it up they had vaccine 11 hours after the announcement that covid was real it had already been made and was shelved
He plans to shut down the e tire country which we know for a fact doesn't work and if California and NY are anything to go by, it will be the most authoritarian our country will ever be in with blatant violations of the Bill of Rights.
There is nothing in good hands when buying has something to do with it he is a n racist Klu Klux Klan Niger hater help you all American money to China worker son collects it she needs to be impeached
It's in way better hands than it was before.
Did you see Dr. Fauci look like he got 10 years younger today? The guy had so much energy on the podium to say what he wanted, and basically said how relieved he was to be out of the clutches of Trump.
@Lookingforthetruth He's an 80 year old doctor who seems to be in peak health. right, he's a hack... lmao.
Biden has already initiated the war powers act to fight the corona virus. He has also organized the federal government to better fight the virus, than Trump did in almost a year. So, yes. We are in much better hands with Biden. Though I think Biden will act decisively and effectively, he actually doesn't need to do much of anything, to do a better job of fighting the virus than Trump did.
Of course it is. I'm sure he's in bed with a lot of pharmaceutical companies and people with special interests who can make sure that pandemics stays around for good long time and makes a lot of very bad people a lot of very big profits so yeah from their perspective it's very good hands
No, I don’t. I don’t think anything is good in his hands.
The guy made an executive order to mandate mask on Federal land, and then in the very same day violated his own order.. 😂😂.. And he signed 25 executive orders to "undo" everything Trump did, and no mention of that Stimulus the was supposed to be signed by him once he got in.. He is already off to a bad start in his first 3 days.
It was going to go away with or without Biden. Like it or Hate it, but since the States falling apart have Democratic Governors they will now get the aid they sought caused by their failures and stop resisting the Federal Government. So things will magically disappear and get better.
It's already to far gone, for anyone to fix it at this point. A virus like this requires everyone to stay inside for at least 6 months. Stores only opening for short hours allowing one person per family to grocery shop... And so on. But that would cost the government our money...
Considering he has made executive orders in his first few days to help the people in poverty stuggling from the pandemic and fix the damage trump has done along with putting out an order to have the military find and reunite the childen separated from their families. I think he is doing a great job so far
It is an infectious disease.
It is going to run its course and burn through the world population.
World leaders cannot do anything. They are just prolonging it.
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