A national plan of action is clearly out lined in the CDC recommendations and freely available to all.
Trump set a terrible example about masks. He made fun of Biden and various reporters who wore them. He refused to wear one until his polling numbers started dropping. The President should be leading by example. He failed miserably at that. While Trump rightfully let US citizens back in from China early on, there was no quarantine and minimal tracing and monitoring of them. He failed miserably at that. He contradicted his medical experts about treatment, in particular, HCQ. He created a controversy where one should not have existed. He failed miserably at that. He made a number of statements at his March 13 National Emergency speech as to things that were going to happen. Still waiting on a number of those. None of those required hindsight. They were abject failure points at the time they occurred.
Trump bullied states into opening. He had more luck with the red States. Trump is currently bullying states into opening their schools this fall. He is threatening to hold back federal funds. Thus, Trump is indeed bending the states arms.
And here is the rhetorical question that you will try and play mental gymnastics with to try and make yourself feel better. I called it, thanks for proving my point.
nvestigators reviewed thousands of pages of emails and other records and concluded that “inept contract management and incompetent negotiating by the Trump Administration denied the country the ventilators it needed.” The White House Paid Up to $500 Million Too Much for These Ventilators, Congressional Investigators... A House panel says “gullible” White House negotiators overpaid for Phillips ventilators, and it has asked the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to investigate… propublica.org
Did you look at the link? The 7 days moving avg never went below 20k since April. And I explained why you don’t want to use daily numbers.
As opinion polls during that time showed, the popular opinion at the time was in support of a lock down and avoiding the viral spread. For example, Michiganders in April approved of their governor's decisions by 57% (link below). As it has been stated many many times, those whom Trump was encouraging to "liberate" their states and go against their governors were in the minority overall. But beyond that, as the president, Trump's job was and is to do what is best for the country, whether it is regarded as a popular decision or not. His job is not to echo the sentiments of the majority, as you put it, or reflect and follow popular opinion. If he did place popularity, politically or otherwise, over doing the right thing for the country in the long run, then as a leader he absolutely made the wrong decision. https://www.businessinsider.com/mic...r-on-coronavirus-despite-protests-poll-2020-4 And again, you have shown no evidence that Trump felt any reluctance to act in the way he did.
