Ight, let’s do a scorecard then
Trump was:
—*Potentially* right about the Wuhan lab origin (complex subject but tl;dr it’s still just a theory, lol, y’all are jumping the gun)
And wrong about:
—Covid being “their new hoax”
—15 cases would go down to zero
—The China travel ban would work
—Warm weather was going to kill it off
—Everything would be back to normal by Easter
—HXQ
—Sunlight & internal disinfectant therapy (note I didn’t compress that to “bleach,” not that it matters)
—Wrong to turn face masks into a punchline on so many occasions, even though he did (grudgingly) start wearing one (sometimes) well into the pandemic
—Wrong to tweet about “liberating” various states (all purple states with Democratic governors), undermining local authorities’ judgments about what was best for their residents
—Wrong to backstab his own health officials on innumerable occasions in so many ways
—Wrong to promise to “fire Fauci” if he won the election
—Wrong to continue promising a vaccine just around the corner last fall when that aggressive timeline gave people false hope, obviously playing for more votes just before the election
—Wrong to tout his own personal recovery from Covid (with dozens of doctors at his bedside & the best healthcare in the world) as proof that the disease was no big deal
—Holding umpteen mask-optional (and in practical terms, maskless) rallies and campaign events
—Severely bungling the vaccine rollout during his lame-duck period when he preferred to focus his energies on trying to overturn the election, and when he wasn’t doing that, golfing: logistical delays that cost tens of thousands more lives
—Let’s throw Jan. 6 in there too: why not? It’s beyond doubt that rioters and even congresspeople caught Covid in this insane bedlam
So, yeah, you can have the Wuhan lab thing