You can argue over how much the COVID-19 pandemic led to Trump's loss of the presidential election in 2020. But there is a pretty compelling argument that but-for his botched response to that pandemic, Joe Biden never would have beaten him.
Which is why it is even more crazy that Trump is not even making the minimal effort to try to stop something like that from happening again. We are facing a major measles outbreak, a bird flu outbreak, our worst regular flu season in years, and the appearance of a new mystery illness in Congo. That's just in the first month of Trump's new term! What is the Trump Administration doing? Cutting jobs at the CDC, ending anti-disease efforts in the Congo, crippling our vaccine development system, and possibly canceling existing vaccine contracts.
Trump isn't just a dumb-dumb who has not learned from his mistakes. He seems to be doing everything he can to take the diseases' side.
