How is causing someone's death by your own stupidity charged? Involuntary manslaughter? Negligent homicide?
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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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