If Trump had a 2nd term in office, would the US vaccination profile look any different?
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The wavering both sides-ers (aka the “moderates”) have memoryholed it. Trumpets are too stupid to understand how bad Trump was. |
BlueFredneck
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I suspect vaccines overall would've been delayed a few weeks to several weeks in states with ineffective leadership. I don't know if it'd have coincided with the first waves of Delta, but I don't think it'd have been THAT bad.
We probably would've had more reachout to MAGA-heavy skeptics and less reachout to anti-MAGA skeptics (i.e. Blacks and White hippies). I don't know if the MAGA reachout would've ended like Trump's attempt to encourage vaccination. SO in the end, I suspect vaccination rates would be a few points lower. Not sure who'd reach out to White hippies but I suspect Blacks would've had ministers and other trusted figures reach out to encourage higher vaccination. Probably more work done on treatments, both those that work (monoclonal antibodies) and those that probably don't (the paste of the horse). Testing probably would've been an afterthought, with a 20-30% chance of someone deciding to go Operation Warp Speed. |
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also a lot would depend on how Trump got his second term.
If he had gotten it through chicanery and state legislatures finding fraud where none existed, then we'd be too busy re-creating mai 1968 (misspelling deliberate) to notice. If he'd been re-elected fairly, then my earlier scenario kicks in. |
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What early treatment was available? We just got COVID pills. And there weren’t enough monoclonal to hand out like candy until recently (and now they don’t work against omicron) |