• Zak@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Much as I’d like to blame Trump for everything bad that happened during his term, the pandemic and surrounding craziness caused a spike in crime, and Trump did not cause the pandemic.

    Biden did not end the pandemic or its social impacts. I’d argue the pandemic isn’t really over, but most of its social impacts are.

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      3 months ago

      I would say Trump might deserve some of the blame for the pandemic because he cut the CDC’s pandemic response funding in the 1st or 2nd year of his term.

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      3 months ago

      Trump did next to nothing about the pandemic when it turns out “something” was his job

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        Hey, be fair. He actively worked to make it worse and committed literal acts of piracy, stealing PPE intended for blue states and giving them to his son-in-law to resell. Remember when Boston had to borrow the Pats private jet to prevent the PPE that the city bought from being stolen? You bet your ass Pepperidge Farm fucking remembers.

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          I don’t remember much about that, but it’s easy for me to believe he did about any bad deed after these last 8 years

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      3 months ago

      Trump and the Republicans extended the pandemic in the US and made it far worse with their policies that turned many of their voters into anti-vaxx and anti-mask lunatics.

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      We’re still seeing the endemic effects of the pandemic because Trump did nothing.

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        He didn’t do nothing, though. He polarized masks, and the disease itself, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

        Edit: I have multiple family members that actually have become fully anti-vax since his presidency. They were NEVER anti-vax before Trump. So he’s likely killed millions of people from the way he handled things.