Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
It struck at a bad time in the US. I would expect that ANY other president would have been better equipped to deal with a crisis.
I'm curious what else should have been done that wasn't. Not to argue, just to list effective actions so we might know what to demand the next time around.

Clearly Fauci's Fraudulence needs to be avoided. People should not have been told that masks were ineffective when he knew damned well they were a proper response. Halting flights from China was also a prudent action, despite his advice to the contrary. He was also recommending that bars, restaurants, sporting events, etc. were safe. How this guy hasn't been fired (or possibly even indicted) escapes me.

Business and casual air travel should have been stopped. Period. Severe restrictions on surface travel should have been imposed as well.

Masks? Masks were never in short supply aside from the problems caused by hoarding N95 masks. The commoner paper masks were readily available in good supply from the beginning, and we quickly knew that simple cloth masks of the type commonly worn elsewhere are cheap and even easy to make at home. The trick is for people to use them and use them properly. Again, Fauci screwed the pooch with his agenda.

Lockdowns? This is a bigger topic than it might seem. The proper response would have been to first cordon off large cities and college towns, and then cordon the cities into small sectors and prohibit all but necessary transit by emergency services and essential workers submitting to screening. As the plague inevitably escaped from these natural zones of infection additional targeted lockdowns could be imposed. And in the infected areas gatherings should have been far more thoroughly suppressed.

What else have I missed? Sure feels like the big mistakes all tree up to one man. So yeah, blame Trump because he failed to have Fauci locked up.