As someone who has extensively worked in the medical field and currently works in research I'm just going to set the facts straight.
On May 30, 2018, President Donald Trump signed S.204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act. Right to Try opens a new pathway for terminally ill patients who have exhausted their government-approved options and can’t get into a clinical trial to access treatments. Although 41 states have passed Right to Try laws, the signing of S.204 makes Right to Try the law of the land, creating a uniform system for terminal patients seeking access to investigational treatments.
this bill was one of the greatest healthcare successes in modern history. In layman's terms it gives choice back to the patient on what care they can receive. This movement, while massively good, has a downside, we don't know if the treatment will work. That was not the point however, as the right of the individual to seek care was tantamount.
I'll now say something controversial here because well the anti-Trump circle jerk is blatant on the topic. Operation Warpspeed was a massive success. This is due to a multitude of factors including the fact that we were operating on limited information and massive amounts of global disinformation because of China. Now for those who were too shortsighted to remember 2 years ago, you werent even allowed to posit the notion that the virus was lab-made without immediate unpersoning. Doctors as prominent as Peter McCullough were unpersoned for simply making a therapeutic treatment for Covid.
Heres the rub for you anti-Trumpers, you judge in hindsight that 1. trump was somehow a medical expert. 2. that the vaccines were always bad and trump somehow knew, and 3. that trump was somehow god and could shut down the globalist healthcare agencies.
Heres the reality:
- Operation Warpspeed was developed because we were told the world was ending. Trump was willing to fund a massive loss and hinge his career on an attempt to help Americans in what was sold as an apocalyptic crisis.
- The FDA, NIH, WHO, JAMA, NEJM and CDC provably and repeatedly lied to both Trump and the public including publishing fraudulent studies. Blaming Trump for this in hindsight is again asking him to be god.
- Trump granted the states rights to determine their own Covid policy, this was frankly the best possible option because again he is not god and was constrained by congress.
- The right to try movement is what led to the McCollough treatment (Joe Rogan's "Kitchen Sink").
- If Trump fired Fauci and Birx, he would have cut the head off the hydra while covering himself in the poisoned blood. Simply put, they had/have to much political clout with the left, and the immediate celebritization of Fauci was to make firing him a poison pill.
Is Trump perfect? No. Would any president have done better in that timeframe? who knows. Could it have been much, much worse? It did, I left hospital care because Biden taking over cemented the regression of medical progress in exchange for political profit. These hindsight attacks are frankly childish and those who keep pushing them should be held to the same standard as they hold Trump.
Voted for Trump. (Really a vote against Hillary, but still) I'm allowed to criticize him without being 'anti-Trump.'
Nobody thought Trump was an expert, we thought the experts were lying.
The vaccines were untested, and couldn't be tested-- that's what Warp Speed was. Given the track record of all coronavirus vaccines "not obviously a disaster" is a "good" outcome, but it's far from the norm for vaccines. Novel Coronavirus is here to stay, and the vaccine is at best ineffective, with both known and unknown side effects, with no active studies using unvaxxed control groups to determine how bad it really is. We get to criticize Trump for not acknowledging that and touting this result as a success. When he says "Get vaccinated!" we can still respond "Get fucked!"
Trump could have actively opposed lockdowns instead of initiating Warp Speed; ultimately, he was correct: Federalism was the only policy answer that Trump had, since Blue states were already openly disobeying him prior to the 2020 election. Warp speed accelerated the failure of the medical institutions, but I don't see how failing fast becomes a success.
Correct. And this is your only real point. Right to Try was good.
Now imagine if the lives we'd have saved if we spent the money invested in warp speed on the McCollough treatment instead. (And not used the ventilator-to-graveyard pipeline.)