200 million people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S.

If you think Biden, or gawd forbid that crazy HRC could have done any better, then you're not keeping up with current evetns, Charles. Have you heard of the CCP? It's their virus, and it's not like any other virus.

Besides, your emporer Fauci, who said that Trump took every piece of advice he gave him, said on 1/26/20 that we had nothing to worry about. Five days later, thank goodness, Trump banned travel from the epicenter of this virus, Wuhan, CHINA.

Fauci f**ked up from the get go. He first said there was no risk, and then he said there was no need to use masks... The fact that Trump defunded the CDC China office could have been a factor.

In any case, I supervised 3 coder teams (China, Korea and Vietnam). The chinese guys were shitting their pants back in January. They warned me that the party was cracking down on 'rumor spreaders' but still risked advising me to stay indoors and use GAS MASKS outside, as the virus was expected to spread globally.

By the time Trump banned china travel, we already had local asymptomatic Covid spread. Advisors had warned him in December about a disease in China. Trump banned china travel as a disguised political move because of the patent infringement policy. That was one of a handful right moves though. Another one was using the Defense Production Act (which he delayed as much as he could). On both front. But then he started his stupid rally banter against masks, calling Covid just a flu (while on tape admitting otherwise) and misguiding his cult followers. Remember whan he claimed he liked his numbers where theyu were? He meant his ratings, not our contagion count. He even forgot that Biden was not VP or in congress not a month ago... claiming Biden did not set a national mask policy as promised!!
"Woman Man Camera TV"--- what an imbecile.

I KNOW Biden would not have blundered the response. We'd be at Germany-level deaths per capita, not being the COVID deaths leader.

Do you honestly believe the CDC China office would have a special ability to force the CCP into transparency? My $0.02 is that a CDC China office would make no difference.

I think we need to avoid the trap of looking back and thinking we would have known what to do. Trump may have been warned about a disease from China back in Dec, but did he, or those advising him, have any way to know what this virus was like? We still don't know so much about it.

I don't want to overstate the effectiveness of the Wuhan travel ban, but at the same time, we shouldn't discount the fact that it saved lives (as did the Europe travel ban.) My point when I bring it up, relative to Fauci's statement from a few days earlier, is that Trump has been proactive, even in spite of what an expert told him. If people want to criticize Trump, that's certainly fair, but criticize him for legitimate reasons.

What you mention about the patent infringement policy is something new to me. Maybe you could explain how a travel ban would help with what I speculate to be a practice that is done nearly entirely electronically? (the stealing of information by the CCP)

The thing about Trump that I try to keep in mind is that he's not a very effective speaker, nor communicator. (imo, at least) I ignore anything he says at a political rally. If Fauci said we don't need masks, can we blame Trump for repeating it?

When answering questions from the press, his casual manner of speaking shouldn't be misunderstood. He knows they're trying to bait him into an answer they'll use against him, e.g. the seamless transition after the election. If he just says sure, the press will twist that into him admitting he's going to lose. Losing begets losing, right? So he'll have none of it.

You may know that Biden wouldn't have blundered the response, but I doubt Biden knows it. Have you any experience with seniors suffering from dementia or other similar afflictions? I do, and imo he's way worse than the media is telling us. Did you watch his most recent town hall? It was hard for me to watch. I recall how he tore Paul Ryan apart in the 2012 VP debate. I may not have agreed with that Biden, but I would have no problem with him being president. Not any more.

Our covid deaths are likely way overstated. They have to be, since our testing has a 20% false positive rate, right? And, I'm not sure why you think the US leads in deaths per capita. See attached chart from Nakedly Progressive Radio.