Anyone else thankful that this pandemic happened in the last year

[maxrandb]

of Donnie Shit for Brains term instead of the first?

It's a shitshow, but I feel myself being thankful that he only has one year to fuck this up instead of 4.

[Aristus]

1. Yeah. Just as I think GWB benefitted from having 9/11 happen in his first year.

He had three years to posture and preen until the next election, by which time, he and Cheney had engineered an event that encouraged voters not to 'change horses in mid-stream.'

Trump can try to start a war to distract from his managerial incompetence, but there's not enough time until the election for that to mitigate the damage he's done to his re-election chances.

[lpbk2713]

2. Yes. I've thought of that.

My big regret is that he has lasted this long. I thought his lack of regard
for his health and his eating habits would have done him in by now.

[Jeebo]

3. I've been thinking it would've been better happening five or six years ago...

...when we had a COMPETENT federal government to deal with it.

-- Ron

[mercuryblues]

10. Bingo

[DonaldsRump]

4. I guess that's one positive way to look at it

What is disheartening for me is that this fool has until January 20, 2021. The damage he can do, based on what he has already done, is unfathomable.

[TreadSoftly]

5. Better now than in the next four

That bastard destroyed any chance we had to isolate like the way the world pounced on Ebola's early outbreaks.

Shaking swords at the world has consequences. That bastard.

My only comfort is that many of the people involved when we were preparing are still around to contribute what was known before the DT regime.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. We would have had the pandemic response team leading the recovery.

I don't think Trump would have had his legs under him yet.

[Caliman73]

8. That is a good point.

He fired the team and cut the CDC budget in 2018. It stands to reason that if this had happened in 2017, shortly after he took office, that the response would have been lead by the scientists and public health people.

Granted, Trump would likely have fucked it up anyway because he cannot stand not being the center of attention. He would have found a way to get into the middle and interfere and mess everything up.

[Under The Radar]

7. Problem is that once again a Democratic president

...will be left with the clean up detail of a Republican economic crash, which only limits his time and resources to instil progressive reforms that prevent another Republican calamity

[jimfields33]

9. And worse the populous will be inpatient by 2022

And give back congress to gop. Same cycle.