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8. What I remember more was his overall pathetic failure in addressing the pandemic.

Reply to Miles Archer (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 11:12 PM

Jun 2025

He didn't want to admit there was a pandemic, didn't want to test because it resulted in more cases, kept saying "It'll just go away one day", didn't help the states or hospitals procure the ventilators or protective clothing, didn't want to shut down the country for fear of crashing the economy, didn't push masks or social distancing, said he downplayed it so as not to create panic when the panic was already full blown and by June, all he was concentrating on was the fu*king election.

The man was elected both times by a group of ignorant people who think the same way as him.

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