- SARSv2 (aka Covid-19) happened after Trump disbanded the team that contained SARSv1.
- During COVID, the west suspended polio vaccination programs in developing regions, so now polio outbreaks are a thing again.
- Antivaxxers in NYC caused a massive measles outbreak a few years ago.
Etc, etc.
And no country of significant size avoided it, regardless of whether they were led by Trump or not.
[1] https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
[2] https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-c...
Excess mortality per capita is the useful number to look at, since it's immune to scaling problems and the "but diagnosis!" argument. Although it may include "too scared to go to the doctor", that can't be too much of a contribution since that contribution shouldn't spike so much. Let's look at some numbers, smearing the spikes:
* in 2020-2021, South Korea's and Japan's excess death rate hovers below 5%
* in 2020-2021, Canada's, France's, and Germany's excess death rate hovers around 10%
* in 2020-2021, the US's excess death rate hovers around 20%
* in 2020-2021, Spain and the UK have spikes so high (but narrow) that I'm not even going to try to average it out. I would guess they're somewhere near the US for 2020 but better in 2021.
* in 2022, South Korea finally had a bad spike, but averaged over the year it's still only maybe 20%.
* in 2022, in almost all countries it hovers around 10%, and the timing of the swings is very similar between countries
* in 2023, in all countries it hovers around 5%
Source: first chart of https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid ; I've done the calculus by eye with rounding since I don't want to look up billions of numbers to do the math the hard way.
(Frankly, Korea and Japan did even better than these numbers say, since their population is skewed elderly in the first place)
There are cough other reasons for that as well:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...
Blaming Trump for COVID-19 makes no sense for other reasons too. There are so many other people to blame first. Fauci for funding GoF research at WIV through EHA. The CCP for being secretive and denying there was an outbreak for a while and not allowing investigations in Wuhan for over a year. The WHO for repeating CCP propaganda like claiming there was no human to human transmission roughly fourth months after the first scientists fell ill at WIV. Do you remember Pelosi and democrats downplaying the pandemic and accusing those who wanted to close borders of racism? She apparently had no regrets about all that:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-no-regrets-initial-c...
With all of this how can blame be placed on Trump? If anything his Operation Warp Speed program bailed out the planet from pandemic (with great work from vaccine manufacturers of course).
