The President has to be a smart leader.

Nice try

Democrats just hate truth

i'm not a Democrat. and conspiracy theories don't meet my definition of truth. in case you're into self-improvement, to be considered true, a claim has to be supported rigorously by facts and logic. simply fitting your preferred picture of how things are just doesn't cut the mustard.

I think Democrats are allergic to truth

If I recall correctly there was a travel ban to/from China December 2019 when the COVID outbreak became a concern. I also recall Pelosi trying to make political hay over it, accusing the administration of being xenophobic. He also pushed fast tracking of the COVID vaccine, for good or bad. Easy to say something was botched when Monday morning quarterbacking. I don't recall Biden doing much of anything after getting inaugurated, except for signing an executive order to 'bake DEI into government services'.

Pelosi was pushing the Hug-a-Chinese stunt in San Francisco’s China Town. Like that didn’t spread covid.

Trump didn't call for a travel ban until Jan 31, after the first US case was already reported. he had previously disbanded the pandemic response team, and then he downplayed the seriousness of the virus to the public even though he had been briefed on its nature multiple times. the pandemic was raging in the US when Biden was inaugurated, so his only jobs were to monitor the vaccine and drug development underway and to facilitate widespread distribution, which he did. the entire pandemic could have been less devastating if people had taken it more seriously at the beginning.

You insinuate that the disbanding of Obama's pandemic response team was responsible for the COVID 19 outbreak is somewhat disingenuous. The dissolution of (Obama's) pandemic response team was part of the restructuring of the NSA under Trump's administration. Those people who were most essential were retained for the same function, others were reassigned to different departments in the NSA, and the rest moved on or retired. And whether or not Trump downplayed the seriousness of COVID is a matter of opinion. And I think working the public into a panic over a virus which was demonstratively much less a threat than Ebola (which was why the pandemic response unit was originally created) would have been grossly irresponsible for any kind of public leader.

oh i was saying that disbanding the team was poor judgment. and Trump himself said that he downplayed the seriousness on purpose. and keeping the public informed so they can make good decisions is not working them into a panic. it's their lives that are on the line, and the results of the approach that was taken show that it too was a case of poor judgment. epidemics are judged by their potential damage, not by how much damage a previously well managed pandemic caused.

It was three weeks between when the Virus was first reported in China and when the first case of confirmed COVID 19 appeared in the US. And you think that Trump should have shut travel to and from China right after that first case? It was only 11 days later that the travel ban was put in effect.
And you really think that Trump could have done "more", or been "faster" in acting?? I don't think you are being reasonable or realistic, considering a 5 day incubation period before people are even symptomatic. I think what Trump did was reasonable and necessary at the time.

well here's the thing. it was clearly already on a pandemic trajectory in China, and a lot of people fly to and from China every day. if you substitute 'China' with 'Hawaii' or any other place for that matter, the physical separation doesn't matter. if it had started in Idaho and was clearly a deadly epidemic, you'd want to isolate from that population immediately, because if you don't, you've lost the chance to contain it. Trump was informed when a defense was still possible, but he waited too long.

it happening in China does matter. China isn't mainland USA. Again, The Virus was first reported in China, December 31, 2019. First documented case in the US was 1/10/20. China is not Idaho. If theoretically if an epidemic situation happened in Idaho, precautionary isolation would have been perhaps quicker because of better communication but would not happen immediately unless scores of sick people (not just 1) started showing up at the hospital or clinics, such as if, say there were an outbreak of Hanta virus. And then it would be at least another 24 hours give or take for lab tests to be taken and the results analyzed. It might have been that the virus was brewing in Wuhan for awhile before China admitted what was going on but it is doubtful, since it was such a short time between when they announced it and when the first American tested positive for the disease after traveling there.

Correction, first COVID case in the US was 1/20/20
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus-found-in-us-washington-state