Just for the record, my company line is that ALL politicians are corrupt and inept and should be replaced regardless of party. Trump is just the most visible of the entire incompetent bunch (537 elected federal officials), all of which are destined to historical obscurity. Seeing everything as a picking on Trump specifically is the same as seeing ghosts. I personally believe (won't try to make up stats) and thought so at the time that rather than have a timely and measured response, the US has schizophrenically vacillated between overreaction in both extremes resulting in a growing spread of the virus and a destruction of our economy, both a detriment to our way of life. We ignored the virus when a milder response was needed, then overreacted by closing everything essentially destroying the current economy, then opened the floodgates of the treasury to try buy off the pain cased by the overreaction essentially destroying the future economy. Now there is a call to re-close the economy. All of these events have multiple fathers from both parties, yet like a Jerry Springer show everyone denies responsibility. Osama Bin Laden himself could not have wished for more.
As for the sarcastic point in my original response, every person in these arguments tries to use stats, analysis and logic to defend a balkanized position with regard to this virus and fails to recognize that 1) the virus mutates and changes, 2) the responses are always behind the events, 3) more data should lead to changes in forecasts, policy and response, 4) leaders of both parties have an agenda that is not related to your health or the US economy, but to them staying in office, but mostly 5) they really don't understand the statistics, the statistics are not comparable or they are victims of statistics that are politically derived.
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