Trump gave people the freedom to lock down or not. Some people like the Californians locked down super hard. Some like Texas opened up sooner. That put the power closer to the hands of the people. What more do you expect a President to do when people are refusing to leave their homes or open their businesses? Does he order the military to kick in their doors and drag them into work? Then hold them at gunpoint during their eight hour shift so they don’t go back home? How does a President force the citizens of his country to leave their house when they are refusing to leave?
Again, I'm simply pointing out how it looks to others. Trump was definitely pro lockdown and incentivized them through stimulus checks and crazy long unemployment.
Trump gave people the freedom to lock down or not. Some people like the Californians locked down super hard. Some like Texas opened up sooner. That put the power closer to the hands of the people. What more do you expect a President to do when people are refusing to leave their homes or open their businesses? Does he order the military to kick in their doors and drag them into work? Then hold them at gunpoint during their eight hour shift so they don’t go back home? How does a President force the citizens of his country to leave their house when they are refusing to leave?
Again, I'm simply pointing out how it looks to others. Trump was definitely pro lockdown and incentivized them through stimulus checks and crazy long unemployment.
I wonder how much of this was a way to accelerate a financial collapse by using Covid as a plausible (to most) pretext.