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Trump handled pandemic poorly

In all the media and discussions about the 2020 election, everybody forgets the abhorrent treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic that was grossly mismanaged by Pres. Donald Trump, as he lied about the election in his July 16 speech.

In May 2018, shortly before the pandemic, Trump disbanded the federal pandemic response team.

Then, in January 2020, the World Health Organization advised Trump of the pandemic and he ignored that warning for two months until we had cases in the USA!

Throughout 2020, he mishandled the medical response.

As a consequence, the USA had 4% of the world’s population and 16% of the world’s deaths!

That failure is the reason many voters did not vote for Trump.

Ron Koch Sr.,

Butler

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