Trump has greatly mismanaged America's response to the COVID19 pandemic. At present there is no proven vaccine. The best obvious response to the virus now and for the past months has been to avoid contact with the virus by social distancing, wearing masks, and washing hands. But Trump early on tried to sweep the virus under the rug and argued against those measures to avoid contact. He argued that the virus is just like any flu and would magically soon disappear. He apparently thought that acknowledging the problem would hurt him politically. As a result a large part of the American population followed his false advice. As a result while the other developed countries worked their ways through the crisis and emerged on the other side with reasonable control of the pandemic and the ability to restart their economies, America still has the highest infection rate, the most deaths, and is still in the resulting economic recession. Trump has walked away from the battle, leaving it to the governors of the fifty states without the backup or coordination of the federal government. Now he wants to unleash an unproven vaccine on the American people without adequate testing on volunteers. It will lead to a wishy washy situation where Americans will be given a vaccine that has not been adequately tested. It will actually prolong the time to know if it is actually working. Also without testing, we will not know what side effects might exist. But Trump thinks it will help him politically. I myself am not willing to be a guinea pig for Trump.
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