Star Member Stuart G (28,254 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113512662
(Stupid Drama-Queenage deleted)
speculation:...What would life be like, since this, January, if Hillary Clinton were the President of the
United States of America....?
I think that there would be no more than 10,000 deaths..Perhaps less than 5000....maybe less than that. Her whole attitude would have been different from the time the first case was reported..
Good Lord! What kind of hallucinogenic drug cocktail is in
Star LOON Stuart G's
?!
Hillary would have done little, and nothing timely. Our current ~209K death toll would consequently be 350K-500K. More specifically:
* Hillary would not have started arriving China passenger screening on January 17th, as Trump did;
* Hillary would have drunk WHO's koolaid and not begun working in January with Moderna to develop a vaccine, and the DARPA project begun in 2018 for quick development of treatments for disease outbreaks either would not have existed or would not have been used (as Trump has);
* Hillary would have drunk WHO's koolaid and not shut down China travel until a month or more later than Trump did;
* Hillary would have drunk WHO's koolaid and not shut down EU travel until much later than Trump did;
* Hillary's usage of the Defense Production Act would have come later, been uncoordinated, would have dictated to companies producing critical products rather than treating them as partners, and altogether have been far less effective than Trump's very coordinated and effective use of the DPA (
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412702.0.html );
* Hillary's posture toward pharmaceuticals companies would have been so hostile that a development and testing partnership such as Trump's Operation Warp Speed (
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/16/fact-sheet-explaining-operation-warp-speed.html ) would have been unthinkable, by any non-cornball name!
* Hillary's hostile posture toward pharmaceuticals companies would also have hindered the vast array of treatments that the Trump Administration had assisted and sometimes helped coordinate, such as the Convalescent Plasma treatment authorized on August 23rd.
For starters.