Given what 45 knew of the C19 plan, did his administration have the ability to get ahead of it, prevent the hysteria, and prevent the destruction that followed? Was it allowed to happen to create the opportunity to rebuild, at our expense?
>One question I have is: if we are dealing with an Insurgency, then to paraphrase POTUS, "what the hell do we have to lose" if we openly call it an insurgency and deal with it in kind?
Exactly. Waiting it out, and allowing the fraud and hypocrisy to be revealed through inconsistent conduct and facts, has been very costly.
But then you look at Sweden's approach and vastly superior outcome. Going in, it was known that you can't ever contain a virus, only slow its spread, and herd immunity was already at 60-80% at the outset (confirmed by Princess Cruises outcome.) The administration could have chosen honest and competent mouthpieces to push the correct model (no lockdowns, no masks, no division) and avoided nearly all of the harm.