/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>18466122
Yeah, he was ahead of the curve on travel bans. But look at the actual fucking results; the US is doing horribly. We're doing more than twice as badly as Canada even adjusting per-capita. Probably because, as said in the article I posted, travel bans are not the most important thing. And MUH TRAVEL BANS are the only fucking thing Trump has.

Wanna know what he SHOULD have been doing? Actually creating functional tests, expanding hospital capacity, and producing PPEs... all of which was explained in the pandemic playbook left behind by the Obama admin, which he ignored. Or I guess the pandemic response team could have told him... if he hadn't disbanded it. Or maybe the key CDC position in China tasked with focusing on emerging pandemics could have helped provide early warning... if Trump hadn't eliminated the position in 2019.

All he seems to be interested in now is making sure his companies get those sweet bailout bucks.

>>18278157
but that would be bad for business

>>18274741
This, Trump needs to replace him with someone who cares more about businesses. Specifically, Trump's businesses.

>>18258192
>Democrats have their own stake in the game.
And they were right about the coronavirus being deadly serious, and he was horribly, horribly wrong. But it's ok, he swapped positions later.
And then swapped again and told everybody to get back to work when several of his hotels/resorts had to close.
Then swapped back AGAIN once everyone told him that was retarded, and came up with a new story about how it was OTHER people in his admin trying to downplay the virus and he was the one valiantly resisting them. :^)
>Yes, but also it was downsizing.
Yeah, and clearly not all downsizing as good downsizing, as you seem to acknowledge here.
>This has been going on for two months before it hit our shores.
Yeah and the DPA could have been invoked much sooner to ensure supply as the playbook specified. What would ALSO help with PPEs is if he didn't tell states to fuck off and buy their own, then strategically outbid them when they tried to do that, then allocate federal PPEs depending on which states Trump thought might vote for him in 2020 (with Florida getting 200% of what they asked for and Maine getting like 5%).
>Again, novel virus. Extreme demand for a niche item for which there was zero (0) supply beforehand.
And yet basically every developed country did a way better job. Guess they're just psychic!

Then there's him refusing to cooperate with oversight provisions in the bailout bill, making his fucking son-in-law a key figure in his corona response, accusing nurses of the mass theft of PPEs to imply the shortage isn't real, implementing the EU travel ban with no warning causing returning Americans to pack themselves shoulder-to-shoulder in a handful of overcrowded airports for hours before dispersing all over the country... dude has fucked up in almost every way possible.

>>18151060
don't forget
>started claiming he knew it was a pandemic before anyone else was calling it a pandemic
>flipped around to telling everyone to get back to work after 6 of his hotels/resorts were forced to close
>when asked about why there was no oversight of the corporate bailout fund, told reporter that HE would be the oversight
>now pic related