In her book, Deborah Birx reports that Trump's opinion shifted and eventually led him to lock down the US after a friend of his died in a New York hospital.
An enduring mystery for three years is how Donald Trump came to be the president who shut down American society for what turned out to be a manageable respiratory virus, setting off an unspeakable crisis with waves of destructive fallout that continue to this day.
Let’s review the timeline and offer some well-founded speculations about what happened.
On March 9, 2020, Trump was still of the opinion that the virus could be handled by normal means.
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
Two days later, he changed his tune. He was ready to use the full power of the federal government in a war on the virus.
I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!
What changed? Deborah Birx reports in her book that Trump had a friend die in a New York hospital and t...
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