The Trump administration waited too long to treat covid-19 as a crisis. So did everyone. If Trump had called for a two-week lockdown in late January rather than the travel ban (which Dems opposed), he would have been called a dictator by the same Dems now calling him derelict.

There are specific failures that must be examined: the years-long unwillingness of the federal government, spanning the Bush, Obama and Trump years, to build up ventilator capacity; the CDC& #39;s failures on testing; the FDA& #39;s thicket of regulations.

But generalized "Trump didn& #39;t take this seriously enough!" stuff is ignoring the timeline, wherein every major Democrat didn& #39;t take it very seriously until early March either.