MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld to discuss the latest evidence of the successes of Biden's economic policies. Sonnenfeld says Biden is having the strongest positive effect on the economy of any president since FDR.
Taking covid seriously was not going to save the economy. It would’ve saved lives, but the economic impact of covid was a global one.
You forget if we had been inside for 2-4 weeks it would have been over.
Plenty of other nations were done with it well before us.
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No. You would have had to keep every citizen from every country inside for 2-4 weeks and enforce incredibly strict N95/KN95-only mask policies. If you have a single city not doing zero-COVID in this scenario, you lose containment.
I don’t get your point. Thanks for agreeing w/ me?
You seem to be stating if the US response had been 2-4 week strict lockdowns that we would have eradicated COVID.
I am telling you no, it wouldn’t have prevented much unless every single human being on the planet was also in lockdown for the exact same 2-4 week period.
Seemed to work for so many countries but sure let’s go w/ that lol. Americans will die on any/every hill.
Which countries that locked down hard suffered a smaller economic impact?
It was only a global impact because of widespread denial of the facts. Trump was at the forefront of that denial from the beginning, and many other countries seemed to follow his lead. Much of global impact could have been avpided entirely of Trump had instead decided to listen to the doctors that actually deal with epidemics and insisted people follow the basic protocols from the beginning before it expanded due to lack of action, instead of vilifying the medical community at every opportunity.
Yes but pretending like it didn’t exist and allowing it to spike harder than ever, so bad things has to be shut down, was a big negative impact
He told his followers it was bullshit and they acted accordingly, spreading it like mad
And before people say that it didn’t need to be shut down, they ignore that the hospitals were overwhelmed and could have been even more overwhelmed if we didn’t have mask mandates and/or lock downs. People were being denied health care because the hospitals had no space.