A basic divide in the future is going to be between people who believe trump was personally responsible for the deaths of several tens of thousands of citizens via negligent homicide and those who believe nobody in his role could have done any better.
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While I do believe others like Stephen Miller probably had eugenics type motives in how they played the response, I don't think Trump himself wished death on anyone. He doesn't care enough for that. He played it in a way he thought would make him look good with low effort.
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No way to prove a counterfactual of course. The best you can do is compare trumpist national leaders to non-trumpist ones controlling for other factors in global natural experiment. But fwiw I think any president since Nixon would have handled this better, with fewer lives lost
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This timeline of all salient events starting in January 2017 is key data for anyone interested in doing the analysis. The GWB/Obama years are relevant too, but this is the core data/event stream.https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-u-s-response/ …
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A full relevant timeline would begin with SARS probably, and for the US, the GWB passion project on preparedness. Then you'd look at what funding/doctrinal changes were forced upon preparedness by GFC, the Ebola crisis, and finally, events since the Trump inauguration.
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You’re probably going to have to give more context as to the specific stupidity.
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In jurisdictions which distinguish between “voluntary manslaughter” and “involuntary manslaughter”, Voluntary means one took action intended to harm but not kill which killed, Involuntary means one took an action not intended to harm which killed
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It depends whether you had the responsibility not to be stupid
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Negligent homicide is defined by some states as being included in involuntary manslaughter. But distinct because of inaction. There’s also “depraved-heart murder”/“depraved-indifference murder” where there’s no intention to kill but an act was known to be highly risky to others
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Depraved Indifference Homicide aka murder 2
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