How about…
- Take the virus seriously
- Not slow play holding a meeting with head of HHS when the virus was first announced in Dec 2019, to actually get ahead of the virus
- Use the pandemic plans created by Bush and Obama, rather than disband the teams already in place to deal with one
- Not cut CDC China pandemic staff by 2/3
- Maintain spending of international teams put in place to track new viruses globally, before they get to us
- National contact tracing strategy
- National masks mandate
- Not politicize the mask wearing
- Not tell his people to slow testing down
- Coordinate PPE sourcing and stock piling after the virus was here
- Stockpile PPE before the virus exploded, you know, the three years he was president, before the virus was here
- Coordinate with China and other countries in vaccine research and development
- Not end pandemic early warning system
- Listen to CDC disease experts, scientists and virologists instead of himself, non scientists, news anchors
- Great work on the China ban, but what about the 40k+ he let in from China after the ban, and what coordination after to contact trace?
- European ban earlier, not 6 weeks after we realized East Coast spread came from Europe, not China
- Actually coordinate the European flight ban with European countries instead of just mentioning it by Twitter and news media, and causing a panic with US citizens abroad, causing them all to overrun US and international airports trying to get home, because they thought they would get stuck
- Wear a mask publicly
- Actually listen to US suppliers who contacted the adminstration about PPE manufacturing here in the US, instead of trying to get it abroad
- Not have the government out bid state governments for PPE and ventilators
- Learn what supply chain management is, not have Jared Kushner pull volunteers off the street to run the federal government’s PPE and medical equipmemt manufacturing and procrument strategies. Wait, there weren’t any strategies. The volunteers we’re brought in to actually develop the strategy. There were no experts on the team.
- Stop undermining your own CDC suggestions, like mask wearing
- Wear a damn mask.
- Wear a damn mask.
- Wear a damn mask.
- Not host spreader events at the White House
- Not lie about anybody can get a test today if they want. That was March. Testing capacity was nowhere near even everybody getting a test with weeks, let alone a day.
- Not jeopordize the presidency and upper reaches of government by getting infected and infecting family members, staff members and other politicians. The leader of the free world, with secret service, whatever experts he wants at his finger tips, couldn’t keep his house clean.
There’s a good 20+ things he could have done/not done better/faster/more truthfully. Interested to hear anybody’s thoughts on whether you think these aren’t a president’s responsibility.
