Here’s this guy, the president, with zero medical training and a history of being — let’s face it — not the brightest bulb in the box, who, for some reason, thought it would be a great idea to give highly specialized medical professionals advice, and yet it worked like a charm.
Before the Jan 6th Insurrection occurred, I actually sat down, gathered all the relevant electoral, polling, and covid data, and did the math to answer this question:
What if the rampant hysteria from covid denial had not happened? What if counties and cities that went red had actually implemented and adopted the mean of covid policies that areas that went blue did, and had percapita death rates to go along with those?
Answer: Trump might have actually won. Not the popular vote, but electorally.
He likely literally killed his chances at re-election via promoting covid denialism, leading to a greatly oversized proportion of deaths amongst areas more likely to vote for him, that could have flipped some states red if that had not happened.
“A SOLID FLU VACCINE”: A SCIENTIST LOOKS BACK ON THE DAY TRUMP CAME UP WITH A CURE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS
Edit to add a quote:
Before the Jan 6th Insurrection occurred, I actually sat down, gathered all the relevant electoral, polling, and covid data, and did the math to answer this question:
What if the rampant hysteria from covid denial had not happened? What if counties and cities that went red had actually implemented and adopted the mean of covid policies that areas that went blue did, and had percapita death rates to go along with those?
Answer: Trump might have actually won. Not the popular vote, but electorally.
He likely literally killed his chances at re-election via promoting covid denialism, leading to a greatly oversized proportion of deaths amongst areas more likely to vote for him, that could have flipped some states red if that had not happened.