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Trump dismantled our virus response programs before covid existed. Then he spent 23 of the first 69 days of 2020 on vacation before declaring it a crisis on day 70. Over those 69 days, Trump repeatedly said the virus was not a threat, would magically disappear, and that criticism of his inaction was a liberal hoax. Once he admitted it was a real threat, he refused to let doctors and scientists talk freely about it, touted numerous fake cures, and criticized every mayor and Governor that took smart action to stop the spread. He backed out of the WHO, refused to invoke the Defense Production Act, and actually held super-spreader events himself.Biden started criticizing our lack of preparedness for a pandemic in October 2019—two months before Covid-19 existed. He criticized Trump for taking China’s word on how the virus was spreading and not having US agents in China to report directly (and we later found out China lied to us). He criticized Trump for not invoking the DPA, and for politicizing the virus.Since taking office, Biden rejoined the WHO, let scientists and doctors take the lead, called for a mask mandate on Federal property, asked Americans to voluntarily wear masks for his first 100 days. He invoked the DPA to speed up production of the vaccine, and ordered the creation of more vaccination sites. Thanks to Biden we’ll have enough vaccines by the end of May to inoculate every American, and we can realistically expect the virus to be under control by around July 4th.This one isn’t even close.

I read the executive order. I suggest you read it too. Nothing in your question has any reality at all. You are obviously believing press reports that have no reality at all.Executive Order on Delegating Authority Under the DPA with Respect to Food Supply Chain Resources During the National Emergency Caused by the Outbreak of COVID-19 | The White HouseOnce you have read this I think you may be a bit set back in your belief as there is nothing of what you think is going on.

German here.I missed most of the show yesterday, because I had a twelve hour RPG session, but I’ve now caught up on the… events in Washington D.C..You are asking, what the rest of the world thinks about it. Officials in all over the world seem to unanimously condemn those events from yesterday, our Chancellor Merkel said, those pictures made her angry and sad, our President Steinmeier called the ones storming the Capitol an “armed mob, incited by the incumbent president” and warned that hate, baiting, lies and violence are putting democracy in danger.Other politicians also seem to be in shock.Interestingly, the President of the Bundestag (the presiding officer of the German parliament) Schäuble said, he requested a report of the German embassy in the USA about the “excesses” in Washington D.C., because he wants to examine, how the people were able to breach the security and which consequences can be drawn for the Reichstag, the German parliament building.[1]That reminds me: Wasn’t there happening something?Right:Right-wing protestors against Covid19 measures attempting to storm the Reichstag on 29th August 2020 (Photo: Lukas Dubro/DPA).They were famously stopped by not less than three (!!) policemen, and every sane person in Germany (and otherwhere) was wondering: Where were the police forces in riot control gear? Where were the water guns and the tear gas? (Spoiler: At the left-wing counter-protest.)That fits into the picture: It seems, that at the Capitol yesterday, the police there was behaving in the same way, I criticised the German police in an older answer for:Johannes Walter's answer to What are your thoughts on the protests against COVID-19 shutdown measures in Leipzig, Germany?When confronted with right-wing protestors, they underestimate the protesters and their readiness to use force, try to de-escalate, shy away from an own use of force and some actually seem to secretly or even openly sympathise with the right-wingers. Yes, I know, the police in Washington used force, even guns, but I read countless comments in which the amount of force is compared to what any BLM or similar left-wing protest faced and it seems to have been ridiculous.But do you know, why the German protestors didn’t get into the Reichstag? Because they weren’t armed.When armed people stormed the Michigan Capitol on 30th April 2020, I wrote in an answer and many comments:In every other country, if people come armed into a parliament, it’s called a coup d’etat.Some people said in response, that I, as a German, don’t understand the USA and their gun rights and their gun culture. That’s true.But if you ask me, what I think personally about the events yesterday, when people stormed the Capitol - I feel more and more like a German Kassandra.Edit: Sacred excrement, over athousend upvotes! Thanks for reading my answer!Footnotes[1] Sturm auf US-Kapitol: Weltweite Verurteilung der Vorfälle