the whole thing is out of context, because the only lockdown trump did was shutting down international travel. everything else was done by states, and each state did their own policies.
rural areas especially in florida, texas, georgia, and all the flyover states changed nothing. there were some churches that started doing livecasts online or by loudspeaker, and some people watched or listened from their cars, but that was mostly just old people in fear... not actual lockdown policy.
for example, florida had a phased lockdown. the heaviest restrictions were barely enforced against anyone (mainly just restaurants), and the restrictions ended in late april / early may... of 2020. bars fully re-opened a month later. i know a gazillion people who moved to pretty much anywhere other than miami (because miami was doing lockdowns), and their northern blue cities still on fucking lockdown deep into the middle of 2021. the only other state with a better covid response was probably wyoming, which didn't have a lockdown at all.
But Trump isn't admitting he was wrong, he's attacking the governor who opened up and is claiming Ron was a big lockdowner.
If Trump owned his mistakes instead of DARVOing it wouldn't be a big issue.
the whole thing is out of context, because the only lockdown trump did was shutting down international travel. everything else was done by states, and each state did their own policies.
rural areas especially in florida, texas, georgia, and all the flyover states changed nothing. there were some churches that started doing livecasts online or by loudspeaker, and some people watched or listened from their cars, but that was mostly just old people in fear... not actual lockdown policy.
for example, florida had a phased lockdown. the heaviest restrictions were barely enforced against anyone (mainly just restaurants), and the restrictions ended in late april / early may... of 2020. bars fully re-opened a month later. i know a gazillion people who moved to pretty much anywhere other than miami (because miami was doing lockdowns), and their northern blue cities still on fucking lockdown deep into the middle of 2021. the only other state with a better covid response was probably wyoming, which didn't have a lockdown at all.
You don't get anywhere in politics in admitting you're wrong.
Should make for a fun debate.
Have we learned nothing from the past...what are we on, nine years now? Never apologize.