“What Did The Pandemic Ruin More Than We Realize?” (30 Answers)

Yeah can totally relate, but just wanted to make sure I wasn't the odd one out😉

Agreed

Lazy PANda (she/they) NO HE DIDNT. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-fired-pandemic-team-idUSKBN21C32M

The CDC is also subjected to political pressure. Like any agency, they are afraid of losing their budgets

Trump kneecapped the CDC -- literally refused to let them do their job based on science -- or to tell people the truth.

Yes and no. As leaders, the #1 person in the country, their words carry a lot of weight. Obviously, we listen to scientists and experts and make smart decisions by listening to them. But, a leader can influence their people by their actions and words. Trump didn't take the pandemic seriously while hospitals across the country were overwhelmed and deaths kept increasing. Even telling people to drink Clorox and c**p. What's even more infuriating is that some people actually did buy his BS instead of listening to scientists and doctors thus endangering themselves and others.

I agree with you that leaders are often used as scapegoats (as an example, rising gas prices are a result of the pandemic, inflation, and scarcity of fossil fuels and the president can’t control that). However, I don’t agree that leaders aren’t influential. They are in a position of actual power where they influence not only what to do about major problems, but they provide an example on how to act and how to respond to them. Trump handled this very poorly. Also, social media played a big part in blowing this up as people act very differently online because they don’t actually see the impact of their actions. However, if people had just educated themselves better to be smart enough to see through his lies and not voted for him, we wouldn’t be in this mess. As I’m writing this, I’m seeing that the true flaw here is the American education system :P

But ultimatelly, that’s how people are. They willingly follow leaders, searching for easy ideas to accept as their own. Very few individuals are experts in each field and we have no choice then to listen to whoever has influence on us. True experts are often not-so-good rhetors and our “leaders” should be the ones who collect relevant information from experts trough their ministries and represent them to public in understandable way. And almost every one of them failed miserably, because no one want to listen to bad news and elections are constantly behind a corner. So populism took over and until the whole thing changes, it will be just worse and worse…

I had a friend once explain while liberals felt disappointed in Obama's first term (this was in year three of his term). He explained, we all wanted him to be the anti-Bush, but he couldn't simply be that, because he had to govern with a weak Congress, and no support in the courts, plus a media that was tea party obsessed. Well, I definitely wanted an anti-Trump. I knew Biden wouldn't be that, frankly Biden wouldn't have made my top ten in the candidates running in the primary. I am still somewhat disappointed even when measured against my low expectations. But are we better off than we were two years ago? Well the ice trucks that we needed to hold bodies from the overflowing morgues are gone. So I'd say that's an improvement.

I'll be honest, I voted for Biden simply because he wasn't Trump. I pretty much felt as though literally anyone could do a better job than Trump, and I still hold to that, despite Biden's gaffes. There was a national plan to deal with a pandemic, put in place by the Obama administration, which Trump did away with. One of many mistakes on his part. But in case anyone needs reminding of the way he handled the pandemic, here's a link: https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/02/919432383/how-trump-has-downplayed-the-coronavirus-pandemic

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All democrats need to b neutered and spayed. You have also shown us who u are, I wouldn’t b caught dead talking to a Democrat. Go charge your stupid electric cars

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Good, go somewhere else then, he hates u too

Dude, if you have something to say. Back it up.

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Then leave. Simple solution. This country would be better off.

I'm aware. For now, we're fighting to bring the capacity back to what it was. But in the long term, we need a system that's ready for emergencies.

Historically, there was indeed a huge increase in the middle class, and people's quality of life, that happened mid century. But it was the Great Depression, not the 1918 pandemic that really led to that. The general improvement of people's lives lasted until the 1970s. At that time, the political winds shifted in the West. The new ideology was to make life better for consumers, not workers. Likely, this was a result of globally high inflation, and desire from the elite classes to put downward pressure on domestic wages.