Trump surely didnt help the efforts, but I think it's too cheap to blame everything on him. I believe many of the folks who listen to medical advice from a guy like Trump would have been anti-vaxxers anyway.
Hypothetically, say there's a president Mitt Romney in 2020 and he urges Americans to take the vaccine - you'd still have swaths of rednecks and evangelics arguing "jesus didnt need a vaccine" and crap like that.

Trump's messaging does not clear people from their personal repsonsibility for the decisions they make. This whole "Trump poisoned their minds"-narrative is not convincing. These people's minds were mush long before Trump.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 27 2021 12:01am

trump says get the vaccine. thats the problem with so many of you. just not plugged into reality.

Definitely would still be a bunch of anti-vaxxers, but a Republican president also has the power to pressure governors to get in line, and to not actively undermine the expert medical staff making recommendations.

Hell, his first statement on masks spent more time saying "THEY ARE VOLUNTARY" than he did asking people to wear them.

a person has to be a complete slobbering idiot to think masks work
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This post was edited by TiStuff on Jul 27 2021 12:11am

To be fair, these medical experts were waffling quite a bit on masks in the beginning. The messaging on this particular aspect was a total mess, irrespective from Trump. He didn't make it any better, don't get me wrong, but still...

Also, if Trump had come out as a covid hawk, urging governors to impose lockdowns and such, it wouldnt surprise me if Dems had taken the dovish position and resisted him. Heck, the MSM would have run story after story about what an authoritarian threat Trump is, that this is a preparation for cancelling the 2020 election and we're on the brink of devolving into a dictatorship, and so on and on.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 27 2021 12:14am

in the way back machine. trump restricted flights from china. aunt nancy was saying trump was xenophobic and every one come and party in china town.
then when trump took off his mask the fraud lefties slapped theirs on and went full covidiot.

one can only wonder what the lefties would be like if trump was a mask zombie and a covidiot. trump seems to play the music the lefties dance to.

Maybe we should just stick with what actually happened instead of silly hypotheticals?

ok this is what happened
in the way back machine. trump restricted flights from china. aunt nancy was saying trump was xenophobic and every one come and party in china town.
then when trump took off his mask the fraud lefties slapped theirs on and went full covidiot.

The idea that Dems were against everything Trump does because it's Trump doing it is the opposite of reality. They tried to work with his administration on multiple things including infrastructure very early on. Meanwhile we have leaked documents admitting that was actually the Republican policy towards Democrats. Like, you guys have the weirdest hangups about Democrats doing the thing that we already know for a fact Republicans made it their mission to do exactly that.

We have no indication that if Trump had come out as a Covid hawk he wouldn't have had the support of Democrats on reasonable measures, and plenty of papers were published showing Trump was the focal point for the majority of Covid misinformation getting spread.

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the mask is a talisman

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noun: talisman; plural noun: talismans

an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck.
"those rings, so fresh and gleaming, were their talismans"
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hahaha covidiots believe in magic

This post was edited by TiStuff on Jul 27 2021 12:29am