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BeerOnTap posted...

Governors are responsible for the success or failures of their respective state.

That doesn't mean they're the only people that have the potential to influence that outcome. If you've got a president telling the country a given governor's response is stupid, and people listen to that instead of to their governor's directions, the president is to blame for that.

Now, blaming Trump for 200,000+ deaths is wrong. No matter who was in office or what they did, there's pretty much no way the US was getting through Covid without a lot of deaths. Between the population density, the poor average health, and the fact that a large portion of the population is comprised of individualistic morons who become outraged by the mere notion of being told to follow any sort of public health guidelines, it was obvious the moment we found out about how bad this disease was that it was going to be a problem for America. That doesn't mean, however, that Trump couldn't have done more to make things better, or that he hasn't been actively making things worse. It's impossible to quantify just how many deaths are on his hands, but it's very obviously a whole lot more than zero.

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