Yep. Everything you linked is correct. But if you look a little deeper you’ll see that what you’re talking about is how the threat of the virus was way over-amplified.

It was just real enough to let them get away with this. And Trump knew that he couldn’t stop them until the virus was no longer a threat, at all.

You don’t have bodies on pallets being loaded by forklifts into trucks in NYC if the virus isn’t real. You don’t find bodies in the back of a uhaul in NYC if the virus isn’t real.

My brother wouldn’t be dead if this virus wasn’t real. His immune system had been severely weakened after winning a battle against lymphoma. But he was working full time and on his feet all day. And what he died of was not influenza. He died exactly the same way that everyone else who died of this virus died.

The virus is not a threat to most people, but you’ve got the wrong picture. Trump was fighting a real battle. Trump is not a bad guy in this picture. Not by a long shot.