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