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First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana
(www.nytimes.com)
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The ironic notion was that Covid came to punish the election of Trump, and so would the next pandemic. But Covid came towards the end of Trumps presidency, even if you include the last months of 2019 where maybe there was a case or two already.
When looking at the graph of infections we see two major waves. The first being Winter 2020/2021 so when Trump was leaving and Biden was getting into office. By then it was considered the third wave, but the March/April and Juli/August waves have been very small in comparison. Then the next big wave came in August/September 2021 and then the craziest winter was 2021/2022 and the last big wave in summer 2022.
Looking at the graph of deaths it is a bit different because the 2020 March/April wave hit very badly, which indeed fell into Trumps reign and could have looked slightly less bad if he had enacted different policies. But the majority of deaths and the worst death waves were winter 2020/2021 so split half half Biden and Trump and August 2021 to March 2022, which is fully in Bidens term.
It is just misinformation to claim a link between Trump and Covid without claiming the same link between Biden and Covid. In total it remains that no one did a good job at mitigating Covid. And frankly the only country that claimed to have mitigated Covid during the first waves was China with an extremely authoritarian crackdown. But then when vaccines were available they still ended up getting a major blow by Covid and just lied about their statistics, so even having postponed the hit until vaccines were available wasn't the winning strategy either.
And nowhere in the world did countries fare significantly better or worse than in the US. All the political leaders did a poor job and it is dangerous to focus on Trump alone. Trump sure as hell was a terrible president and is a huge asshole and criminal, but that cannot be the reason to associate Covid with him.
Sort countries by deaths per 1M population. Aside from a lot of countries that didnt monitor Covid related deaths or infectins properly because of structural factors there is no relationship establishable between Covid strategy and number of deaths. How many people died in a country probably mostly related to the age of the population, prevalence of smoking, pollution and other factors for respiratory issues.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
You're taking the joke way too seriously.
Politicians have not taken Covid seriously enough and have not changed anything tangible, so the next pandemics will come and hit us just as hard.
I repeat, it was a joke