# Trump's bungling of Covid-19 -- worse than Reagan's on AIDS? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717 "2020-03-18T09:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/41 "2020-03-20T13:51:04Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > You’re like the wife who kills her children to get back at her husband whom she suspects of cheating. You’re the conspiracy theorist with his head in the sand and no clue what’s really going on. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/42 "2020-03-20T14:33:05Z")
If this was really “a normal flu outbreak”, prisons wouldn’t be [releasing vulnerable inmates](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51947802). ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/43 "2020-03-20T16:04:36Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. > > The Covid 19 crisis is Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. And every day it didn’t happened. In fact, the opposite occurred and it’s driven you insane. > > So along comes a normal flu outbreak, and in order to validate yourselves because you all have such fragile egos, you’ve created mass hysteria and destroyed the economy. > > You’re like the wife who kills her children to get back at her husband whom she suspects of cheating. Sure, that’s why the Administration - and the whole world - is treating it as a normal flu outbreak, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/44 "2020-03-20T16:11:14Z")
Has the GOP… at long last… finally turned on Trump? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JxG241bExqY/maxresdefault.jpg "Why Did President Trump Lie About the COVID-19 Crisis?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxG241bExqY) ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/45 "2020-03-20T16:12:06Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. > > The Covid 19 crisis is Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. And every day it didn’t happened. In fact, the opposite occurred and it’s driven you insane. > > So along comes a normal flu outbreak, and in order to validate yourselves because you all have such fragile egos, you’ve created mass hysteria and destroyed the economy. > > You’re like the wife who kills her children to get back at her husband whom she suspects of cheating. Sure, that’s why the Administration - and the whole world - is treating it as a normal flu outbreak, right? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/46 "2020-03-20T16:23:02Z")
How many of my fucking friends died of AIDS? How many of my students? Don’t be an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/47 "2020-03-20T17:13:42Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. And every day it didn’t happened. In fact, the opposite occurred and it’s driven you insane. It hasn’t occurred yet, but I concur. It does appear increasingly likely that the world will destroy Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/48 "2020-03-21T01:17:03Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. > > The Covid 19 crisis is Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. And every day it didn’t happened. In fact, the opposite occurred and it’s driven you insane. > > So along comes a normal flu outbreak, and in order to validate yourselves because you all have such fragile egos, you’ve created mass hysteria and destroyed the economy. > > You’re like the wife who kills her children to get back at her husband whom she suspects of cheating. You are a typical right winger; completely dishonest, ignorant and irrational; and lacking in any emotion whatsoever beyond hatred, greed and cruelty. A monster to the bone. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/49 "2020-03-21T13:58:32Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. I know people who died of AIDS. Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/50 "2020-03-21T14:07:07Z")
I know people who died of AIDS. Just talking yesterday about a dear friend. \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/51 "2020-03-21T14:30:05Z")
So if CoViD-19 panic is just a plot to destroy Trump, then why are Trump and other Republicans also panicking? Last I checked, Gov. DeWine of Ohio is still a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/52 "2020-03-21T14:30:21Z")
So if CoViD-19 panic is just a plot to destroy Trump, then why are Trump and other Republicans also panicking? Last I checked, Gov. DeWine of Ohio is still a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/53 "2020-03-21T15:55:31Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. Hokay, let’s listen to what [Republicans](https://youtu.be/JxG241bExqY) [say](https://youtu.be/7gJgmkWJ6es)… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/54 "2020-03-21T15:56:52Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. Are you stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/55 "2020-03-21T15:57:55Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > You’re the conspiracy theorist with his head in the sand **sniff** **sniff** That ain’t sand… ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/56 "2020-03-21T15:58:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So if CoViD-19 panic is just a plot to destroy Trump, then why are Trump and other Republicans also panicking? Last I checked, Gov. DeWine of Ohio is still a Republican. Yes, and why are they playing along? They should just expose the political ploy for what it is. And maybe they should call out China and Italy and the rest of the world for their part in this ploy to take down Trump. If I devolve into craziness, I’m thinking this smells like a Republican plan. They are seeing that they are going to lose the election so it’s imperative that they get all that money out of the Treasury and into the hands of their cronies. This way, even if they can’t use the crisis as a ploy to cancel the election, they will have driven the country so deep into debt that UHC will never happen. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/57 "2020-03-21T18:33:32Z")
In case some missed it, the [Fauci Facepalm](https://twitter.com/search?q=Fauci%20facepalm&src=typed_query) at Trump’s stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/58 "2020-03-21T19:30:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > **sniff** **sniff** That ain’t sand… I was referring to this sand: > [@Ilhan Omar - A thread about her marriage and immigration history.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/258): > > What I’m seeing is the same thing I saw with 9/11 Twoofers: the piling up of a bunch of relatively innocuous grains of sand, pointing to the pile, and asking “What about all of this?” > > Without solid evidence, it’s a all just a pile of sand. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/59 "2020-03-21T19:39:54Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Are you stupid? I’m pretty sure I know the answer to that one. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717/60 "2020-03-21T22:07:45Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > We don’t have \*no \*idea. We have a pretty good idea that it won’t. It’s just not lethal enough to be killing “a hundred million”. That’s pure fantasy. Here is a [graphic showing the history of pandemics.](https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5e6fe438e1e61700080ef359/960x0.jpg?fit=scale) HIV/AIDS is (currently) the fifth worst in history. Coronavirus almost certainly will not rise to anywhere near the worst plagues in history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-bungling-of-covid-19-worse-than-reagans-on-aids/849717.md?page=4)