This time Trump's lie will matter
Actually, anyone who did not get their toilet paper before it ran out agrees that panic occurred and that avoiding it was a worthy goal. The only Trump SARS2 sin was the fact that his staff caters to his whims rather than provides effective oversight.
The CDC is still trying to not say the virus is a cold, so it is not recommending using heavy sneezes or hay fever as a screening question. That is what has spread the virus - not opening bars or not wearing masks. An effective staff would have called foul and forced the CDC to admit that all coronaviruses, even new ones, start as colds.
Trump's problem is that he showed that he is not a total idiot - that he was listening to the facts and made a judgment that had a reasonable explanation. In other words, he can't play dumb anymore. That is the issue that will haunt him. A pathological lie is one thing - a deliberate one is how Washington does business.
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