Question:
With 39m unemployed, 1.6m cases and 94,000 deaths, has Donald Trump’s Coronavirus response been a success or an abject failure?
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2020-05-21 16:33:40 UTC
With 39m unemployed, 1.6m cases and 94,000 deaths, has Donald Trump’s Coronavirus response been a success or an abject failure?
55 answers:
Dr.Pepper
2020-05-23 12:03:25 UTC
He has ignored the virus and still ignores the virus.  Abject failure.
?
2020-05-24 04:01:45 UTC
You can’t stop a virus with 60% Asymptomatic and an R Naught of 2.6. Does not matter what Trump does. It cannot be stopped. Period. Best course is to let it burn Itself out by HERD immunity. Virus must have a host to spread and thrive. If to many people have antibodies, the virus dies because it has no one to pass it on to. I’d say, 40% of the country/city will be sufficient to begin burning itself out 
Al
2020-05-24 00:58:50 UTC
Trump steered the American economy into one of the best recoveries we have seen in years, but because we are a 70% consumer driven economy faced with a situation that required self isolating of nearly every household in the country, this virus didn't care if you were a red state or blue state....Trump's initial response was swift, and he certainly put peoples safety first, but at the end of the day, Individual States are at the helm of mitigating safety measures, most states did pretty good, people died but the numbers could have been worse, and most likely we will see more ripples from this in spots...over all, Trump gets a passing grade at his initial response, the media is playing both sides of the ball with Trump...as a former democrat myself, I shutter to think how Biden would have handled this on his watch....I'm sorry, if Trump supporters are idiots to you, you can't imagine what I think of Biden supports...I understand they want someone to defeat Trump, that's fair, but voters on the left didn't pick Joe to run, The media picked him for you by wagging the dog at every turn and only giving certain people TV time....as a former democrat, I still contend the left is brainwashed into thinking Joe is viable....the guy is one brain cell away from dementia.
2020-05-23 11:03:44 UTC
the numbers you have a wrong, You are talking about Obama/Biden care right 458,000 deaths 98 million Jobs just in its first year
?
2020-05-23 09:08:39 UTC
It depends which side of the fence you are on.



It’s a failure because there are 39m unemployed, 1.6m cases and 94,000 deaths.



It’s a success because it is not MORE than 39m unemployed, 1.6m cases and 94,000 deaths.
?
2020-05-23 01:43:13 UTC
A failure so far, but let's wait until the dust clears, whenever that may be
Donnie Doom
2020-05-22 12:42:33 UTC
The 39m unemployed is Trump's fault. He should have followed Sweden's example. However, the 94k deaths are unavoidable, as the flu has been with us since the beginning of history.
2020-05-22 01:49:50 UTC
Let the trolls answer here. Your answer can only be best given at the polls



Order your mail in ballots NOW or if your state doesn’t allow it, plan and prepare to stand in line on Nov 3. 



Let the trolls win on yahoo answers. We will win at the polls. 
2020-05-21 17:05:04 UTC
A failure of epic proportions. The USA has *one-third* of the world's cases - that's inexcusable! Trump wasted months by denying the crisis was even real, then his actions were too little too late. And thousands are dead as a result of his mishandling & ineptitude.
Kjelstad
2020-05-21 16:56:51 UTC
94,000 deaths and he says he would not have done a thing differently. 
2020-05-21 16:43:27 UTC
Liberals have been criticizing Trump for allowing people to work, but at the same time criticize him for high unemployment?   Very hypocritical.   
?
2020-05-23 15:41:41 UTC
Trump had literally nothing to do with governors deciding to shut their states down and cause unemployment... In fact, Trump has been a staunch advocate to OPEN the economy back up again and get people to work again, but guess that doesn't fit your narrative..
Periferalist
2020-05-23 15:23:10 UTC
Wow, that's a rhetorical question if there ever was one.
2020-05-23 11:43:13 UTC
If his intent was to kill Americans and cripple the economy then he has been a complete success.  If that was not his intent then he has been an abject failure.
?
2020-05-23 05:20:43 UTC
When compared to other countries, a failure. I would have expected that the USA would have been a world leader in saving lives. But with Trump in charge, the disaster it has been was no surprise.
?
2020-05-23 00:09:56 UTC
I think a failure. China, where this virus originated, had only about 82,000 cases and about 5,000 deaths while the United States has had over a million cases and about 96,000 deaths. To make this even more alarming, China has over a billion people in their country and the US has only about 325,000 people. We should have locked down in February and did what  Jordan has done, which was basically shut EVERYTHING down, prohibit movement, and make severe consequences for violating to make sure we could get rid of this. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/25/821349297/jordan-keeps-coronavirus-in-check-with-one-of-world-s-strictest-lockdowns
2020-05-22 21:00:06 UTC
The Whole World Failed at Keeping COVID-19 out of their countries. CDC, NIH, DHS, & WHO all Failed, as governor Cuomo argued. Doctor Fauci & CDC Scientist have been operating as they have since Obama's Administration & this pandemic proved that the bureaucracy they had in place then couldn't handle SARS-COV-2 spreading at this magnitude. Thus, a Task Force requiring Defense Dept. & Private Sector involvement was crucial. CDC knew of Corona Virus Strains SARS 18 years & MERS 5 years. WHO should've taken the role of an International Pandemic Response Agency mobilized as soon as there's a large outbreak of an unknown disease infecting humans in a city to quarantine & study. WHO was late to gather Data & Sound the Alarm for every country in the world to brace it self from a pandemic the world connected by travel & transport where every day life requires social interactions in close proximity was not prepared for.



No One could've known about an "unknown" disease to infect humans that transmit from human to human simply by talking from people who weren't even showing signs of illness at the beginning stages & into a pandemic. A respiratory disease like COVID-19 can't really be contained absent of data on how fast & easily it spreads by 85% of infected people who never got ill or hospitalized (14.5%-14.95% are recovering) experiencing symptoms of a common cold for which the lightly infected & doctors overlooked it as just a cold, until an alarming number of hospitalized infected patients overwhelming the hospitals & 1/20 were dying weekly which prompted a Chinese doctor to look through a microscope ruling out the Africanized swine flu happening at the same time across China that started 3 months earlier. China took extraordinary measure when it was apparent how contagious the virus was, but it was too late as initially they focused on quarantining feverish people having acute symptoms which allowed the virus to spread out of Wuhan to the world through foreign tourist, diplomats & business travelers showing no signs of infection. 



The Administration were working behind the scenes of the (D)s impeachment fiasco drawing up plans in early January if things got worst in Wuhan & spread out of Wuhan after CDC scientists were sent in Dec. 2019, but China refused help while (D)s defy & resist the Administration's mitigation guidelines. Travel restriction from & to China was declared before there was a confirmed case in the US. Andrew Cuomo didn't quarantine every international flight & sea vessels coming into New York when travel restrictions were announced in late January which allowed NY to turn into an epicenter. In the west coast all passengers & crews of princess cruises that dock were quarantined, even if they've already been quarantined abroad just as all passengers & crews of a Boeing 747 from China were quarantine. Cuomo pushed back on Statewide Federal Quarantine & ordered Nursing homes to accept COVID-19+ patients where more than 1/2 of the mortality statistic comes from. Cuomo tried to pull a fast one on the incumbent with the 40,000 Ventilators he was planning on hoarding stored in a NY warehouse to control the supply lines. Having worked closely with the Administration to keep the spread at a minimal & flatten the curve, the west coast governors are getting carried away with the shutdowns threatening to make it permanent, until vaccination that could partially work 50/50, like flu vaccines, are readily available for obvious political reason expressing to let their megalomaniac tendencies loose. N. Dakota, Georgia, & Florida are much better in keeping things balanced as Red states prefers a targeted shutdown approach to minimize the spread.



De Blasio & (D) Health experts from Feb. to Mar. 15 were making speeches in small rallies against travel bans, social distancing & shutdowns. 02/02/20 NYC Health Commissioner Oxirus Barbot said, There is NO REASON NOT to take the subway, bus, or go to your favorite restaurant - And certainly NOT to miss the parade next Sunday. 02/16/20 she tweeted, " As a doctor I can say there's no reason to avoid ANY neighborhood because of coronavirus"'. 02/16/20 Mark D. Levine Chair of NYC Council Health Committee tweeted, In powerful show of defiance, huge crowds gather in NYC's ahead of annual Lunar New Year parade. 0302/20 Bill de Blasio tweeted, "Since I'm encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus". 02/03/20 New York Times article: "There is no reason why it is not safe to travel to China, The travel ban is unjust". Prior to 03/15/20, all partisan (D) news media anchors along with Doctor Fauci & other (lib) experts stated that Influenza should be looked at more than Wuhan Flu with Dr. Fauci assuring the public not to be alarmed on NEWSMAX aired in 01/21/20 to early March. Late March, Fauci mused 1 year quarantine. In early April, Dr. Fauci reversed his no need for mask advice except for health care workers when it's known to spread by simply talking. Experts can be wrong.



Sweden revered as a socialist success did not take the socialist approach of shutting down their economy as they knew COVID-19 isn't apocalyptic & the spreads will happen no matter how (D)s & news media makes it apocalyptic while the young & healthy rarely affected keeps the economy stable. Doctor Dan Erickson analyzed & exposed the natural & pre-existing conditions deaths that isn't respiratory being classified as COVID-19 death under pressure, perhaps to inflate COVID-19 Mortality Rate. It is very likely that Influenza deaths are being counted as COVID-19 fatality as well.



Worldwide Deaths from 01/01/20 - 04/04/20: COVID-19 59,226, Seasonal Flu 125,352, Water Related Diseases 217,099, Malaria 252,878, Suicides 276,480, Road Accidents 348,044, HIV/AIDS 433,382, Alcohol 644,785, Smoking 1,288,753, Cancer 2,117,316, Hunger 2,883,497



At some point the country & the world will need to cope & live with COVID-19 along other diseases that are far more lethal & incurable than COVID-19. With an incubation period of 2 weeks, 6 weeks quarantine/shutdown is more than enough & should've transitioned to targeted shutdown. The world is still dealing with HIV, EBOLA (99% mortality), Hepatitis C & Syphilis without a vaccine. Shutdowns for more than a couple of months will put 280 million US folks in poverty. A year shutdown will put 320 Million Americans in poverty where the government will have to nationalize the industries, private property, & public individualism inducing famine, unproductivity & deaths.



Despite how American socialists (Sanders & the squad) brand their socialism as Democratic Socialist to mask their true intentions to achieving the end goal of Socialist state control of the economy, industry, property & the public by draconian bureaucratic regulations. Everything they propose such as public education (free & mediocre) & universal single payer health care (rationed) is straight up the USSR, Cuba & Venezuela's play book which Sanders lauds & defends. (Venezuela was praised as Democratic Socialist that was actually Communist with its bureaucrats pillaging oil revenues). These socialist countries don't have state of the art Hospitals & Cadillac Gov. Assist. for all (only 0.0001%) because there isn't enough funds & man power regardless of how much of the private sector are taxed & nationalized. Ultimately all concept or branding of socialism leads to Government owned property of industries, housing, farms, people, long working hours, & NO: dissenting free speech, entrepreneurship, competition, varieties in brands or materials with very little individuality, motivation, & productivity.



In a Socialist country it is very hard to impossible to be a Millionaire when socialists like Bernie & AOC will take 90% of an entrepreneurs wealth, income, & property. Sanders always touts Sweden (less densely populated homogenous country) as a socialist success where Millionaires & Billionaires thrives from the middle class & the working poor being the ones funding most gov. assistance in Sweden. Bernie & AOC will use every means of pressure & influence in advancing the Green New Deal's socialist agenda for the US economy & society to mirror that of Cuba & Venezuela permanently for decades, if not a century to come. Unlike Sweden, it'll be funded by the top 21% (millionaires & billionaires) & reverse that into the top 0.0001% in solidarity with Cuba, Venezuela & N. Korea that will eliminate the middle class to exist flattening the income for all class among the rich, middle & the poor.



Lesson for USA: Sweden not Socialist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3vVbdgMuQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOiGtO2UBA



A nationwide 70%-80% economic shutdown to the essentials only is a communist model economy from a pandemic or warfare that plunges 1st world economies into a depression is when socialism takes a foot hold & eventually take over that will be permanent under the Green New Deal (New Communist Manifesto). Anyone who has lived in Venezuela or escaped Venezuela knows this feeling, once all Industries & Private properties are nationalized. Senate & House (D)s Green New Deal will shape America's economy in line with Venezuela & Cuba were bureaucrats control the economy & the profits (ripe for corruptions). Everyone will either be working for the government assigned jobs deemed necessary, or unemployed on rationed assistance hand outs & rent free dilapidated apartment in disrepair.
Karen
2020-05-22 19:31:41 UTC
Mr Trump is the best president we've seen in 60  years!  We love you president Trump!
Mr. anonymous
2020-05-22 17:43:53 UTC
Trump's response is as good as it can be under the extreme circumstances. The problems are China's announcement in December that the virus is under control and it won't spread beyond China. Also, the World Health Organization's announcement in January that Coronavirus cannot spread from human to human.



it's not Trump's fault that the unemployment is so high. If anything, Trump is putting pressure on China and advocating to bring American jobs back to USA or face tarriffs.
cross-stitch kelly
2020-05-22 14:31:06 UTC
It's been the biggest failure I've ever seen.  My husband works in the labs at the Indiana State Department of Health, so we get a lot of information most people don't listen to.  If Trump had given out more information, followed the pandemic guidelines Obama left him, and put those guidelines into effect even two weeks before most states actually did, it's estimated that we would have had 80% fewer cases than we do.  As it is, we're facing wave after wave of deaths that will force us to reimpose quarantines.

 
kswck2
2020-05-22 12:47:13 UTC
It is neither, since there is nothing to compare it to. 
Alan H
2020-05-22 08:04:47 UTC
His response to Covid is simply an echo of all his petty, self-focussed behaviour?
2020-05-22 05:58:13 UTC
Where is your proof of the COVID-19 "pandemic" being President Trump's creation and just exactly HOW would Trump benefit from it? 



If any political entity were to benefit from their creation of a FAKE COVID-19 "pandemic", it would have to be a UNITED effort, between the SOCIALIST countries who painfully pay back their debt of TRILLIONS they owe the  U.S. and the Democrat SOCIALISTS currently infecting the House and Senate.



And in the process, the SOCIALISTS get to severely damage and undo all the recovery progress being done to America's economy, while at the same time, suppressing the citizenry rights of Americans--giving THEM a taste of what living in a third world country is like. 



And frankly, the emerging American Democrat SOCIALIST doesn't have a huge problem with seeing the U.S. economy crash and burn; they believe America's economy should burn to ashes, be swept clean and "reset" to embrace SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST governmental mores--a Utopia the silly idiots actually think can exist when factually, such IS impossible to accomplish. 



Do bear in mind: This isn't the first time the bio-logic "viral pandemic" angle has been used to politically discredit a resented U.S. President; it's about the 4th since 1963--however THIS go around, it's the biggest grand scale "pandemic" ever--one that evidently takes a world-wide team.....and a LOT of money....to pull off.



See for yourself: Do a Google search for "how many COVID-19 cases in the U.S.?"



Oh...and in the TOTAL CASES section, be sure to click the "per 1m" in the lower left corner; that's the total Matt---and a LOT of LIBERALS--would rather you NOT see......
?
2020-05-22 02:27:41 UTC
If Clinton won the election. The lockdowns would be closer to six months and maybe slightly less deaths. There would be more bankruptcy and unemployment. 
dominick
2020-05-22 00:18:42 UTC
.Except for your stupidity your ********* is indefensible. Because the covid 19 or the Wuhan Virus started in a Chinese lab where the Chinese held back data and then stopped flights out of Wuhan to inside china but continued to let people fly around the globe . While Trump who had to focus on a dem phony impeachment. Was called a racist for shutting down flights from china. When Dems were inviting the infected to our shores. Where a blue state idiot allowed the infected into nursing homes to kill the most vulnerable. Now that's indefensible and I put that right in your dumb face.
nappa
2020-05-21 21:34:10 UTC
Who's blaming the president for the virus, only the one's who blame everything on everyone else, suppose you blame your parents for being born.. get out of mom's basement and get a life
2020-05-21 17:25:38 UTC
It's a badge of honor for tubby trump

Still winning 👍👍

#MAGA

Stay Covfefe America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Jeffrey
2020-05-21 16:56:59 UTC
Trump's response has been what the CDC experts have advised him to do. At the start of this thing they were telling him there would be a million or more deaths if no action was take and he took the action they recommended. Since the deaths are only 10% of the original estimate I would say his response has been a success. The unemployed numbers go up because the state governors are not following Trumps advice to reopen their economies ASAP.
Jeancommunicates
2020-05-21 16:45:19 UTC
Matt:  What would you have done?  How many lives would you have lost?  You ungrateful democrats.
2020-05-21 16:40:09 UTC
Abject FAILURE.
2020-05-21 16:39:31 UTC
If he was fit for the office, he would have taken the virus threat seriously f/ day 1. Instead he ignored early warnings telling us how he had it under control. As he was dragging his feet w/ insufficient action, the virus blossomed past the vital containment stage. “There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.” — Winston Churchill
Nate
2020-05-25 08:06:50 UTC
Dude, just read this

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W.T. Door
2020-05-23 22:48:30 UTC
Troll fail.                     
?
2020-05-23 12:15:00 UTC
Matt. This sitting President has made some mistakes.

Most evident one. Listening to the Chinese and the

WHO. Both who were holding back and not being totally

forthcoming in the problems they were experiencing.



The man has done a stellar job. He did what no one

else has ever had to do. I trust him. And I trust the

fact he is working constantly on the behalf of a 

the people he is sworn to protect and serve.
2020-05-23 09:21:43 UTC
It's not Trumps fault. Barack HUSSEIN Obama left him expired, broken, and fake covid19 test kits and a shortage of ventilators.  



Considering the hole he was left in financially and medically, I'd say hes done a DAMN good job. 

Would you prefer 60 million unemployed and 500,000-1,000,000 deaths from 50 million infections?



No conspiracy theories here, I'm not claiming Obama is a muslin terrorist or that Hillary Clinton is a mass murderer or a "deep state" exists. That's nuts. 
The_Doc_Man
2020-05-23 03:25:30 UTC
There is no way to answer that question because it calls for us to make a comparative judgment and there is no other person against whom we could compare.



I neither defend nor attack Trump in this, but I DO attack the question on technical grounds.  Any answer you get will be an opinion because nobody can make the real comparison.
2020-05-23 03:04:45 UTC
A failure so far, but let's wait until the dust clears, whenever that may be
2020-05-23 02:57:27 UTC
A failure so far, but let's wait until the dust clears, whenever that may be
?
2020-05-22 21:41:36 UTC
I don’t understand how he could have done worse, I doubt any politician could have saved America from covd19.
?
2020-05-22 21:30:01 UTC
Trump did everything right, in spite of Democrat incompetence.
Sunday Crone
2020-05-22 13:35:58 UTC
I personally feel it is an abject failure and speaks to itself.  The only think to use as a comparison is the pandemic of 1918 and the Great Depression.  Wilson and Hoover have a good number of events that point to their presidencies being less than successful.
?
2020-05-22 06:03:13 UTC
Trump saved lives by closing off travel from China. Imagine if Biden was President. He wouldn't have closed off travel because he considers it racist and many more people would have died.





Anyway, the majority of the cases and deaths have been in blue states. And why would people blame Trump for the unemployment when he's pushing to get people working while democrat governors are pushing to keep their states closed.
2020-05-22 05:08:59 UTC
According to Trump it's a Success!
2020-05-22 04:55:59 UTC
Since the blame for the pandemic is totally lefty smoke: Total success!
Andy F
2020-05-22 02:09:02 UTC
Doesn't seem at all successful to me.



Of course, political opinions differ.  We can see already that some of his biggest fans are making excuses for him or minimizing the problem..



-- democratic socialist for common sense
2020-05-22 00:06:43 UTC
His response was a total failure
Dru Zod
2020-05-21 16:42:42 UTC
You need to separate out the effects of CORONA from Trumps response 



The entire world is shut down and there is massive global unemployment due to this 



This is not unique to the US or the President 



As far as Trumps response ... he has taken the right steps to close our borders 



He has helped fast track research for a vaccine and treatment 



He has worked to increase manufacturing of tests and PPE as well as their distribution 



All in all the response from a Federal level has been very good 



Short of declaring martial law and forcing people to stay inside there is little a President can do to stop the spread of the virus 



It also didn’t help that the Dems told people to ignore the President’s guidance and told them to socialize 
?
2020-05-21 16:37:52 UTC
Donald Trump has failed - in the 20 states voting for the cookie baker - correct...It is almost like - If they vote for crooked Hillary, they are too stupid to follow socialist distance and hand disinfection procedures of the local political hacks, like, the 'son of a Cuomo.'
2020-05-21 16:37:19 UTC
While the "Ecpert" Fuhrer Fauci was telling us that the virus posed no threat to the USA and Nasty pelosi was inviting people to party in Chinatowm, Trump was instituting Travel Bans, and invoking the Defense production act.



Compare Trump's timeline of action to that of Obama and Swine Flue. And Obama's WAS touted as a Suck Cess.
2020-05-21 16:36:06 UTC
He couldn’t have made a bigger mess of it if he tried...
Bill Kill
2020-05-23 17:10:16 UTC
Failure he'd instead treat himself to some golf time rather than try and fix the devastation he caused
RICK
2020-05-22 18:07:27 UTC
Neither of the extremes

It could have been better, we will see this fall when the 2nd wave hits much worse than the first wave. If the response is as slow as the first round it will be an abject  failure and what Trump wants/ says does not matter, the country will shut down and will be shut down much longer for the 2nd wave
2020-05-21 16:39:26 UTC
Initial expert predictions were millions of Americans would die, so that’s been lowered substantially.  



I think the biggest error people make is giving the president credit for good or bad.  The president has little control over the virus.   
2020-05-21 16:38:57 UTC
Depends on where you live I guess... Democratically run NY that accounts for almost half of those numbers or somewhere else that has hardly been affected.



- and the unemployment numbers will fall as the States open for business.
2020-05-21 16:37:28 UTC
Your last one got deleted. Bwahaha



Our death rate is lower than most European nations. We have lowered the curve greatly. 


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