COVID-19: [Tom Hauser: “Any second thoughts about not implementing a more strict national COVID response as opposed to leaving it up to a patchwork of states?”]
“We’re at the top of the world right now, we’re doing better than any other nation, so I think we’ve done a very good job. There’s a big price to keeping everybody locked up and keeping them shut down…
And interestingly, if you look at some of the states in this country that were the strictest, they’re not doing as well as some of the governors who did it in an easier manner. Look, it’s an invisible enemy, I think we’ve done an incredible job.”
-Donald Trump, “Trump one-on-one: President says denial of federal aid to state might be ‘punishment’ for Minneapolis,” kstp.com, Aug. 17, 2020