What??!?
Trump called it the Chinese virus and people were targeting Asian people.
That has nothing to do with the seriousness of the virus.
Going to ChinaTown in your own country is not going to CHiNA...
Im confused. Was that really your response?
Trump never made it seem serious. He literally castigated any one speaking about the seriousness of it and tried to shift blame for everything that resulted from his lack of enforcement.
At the beginning Trump banned travel to and from China and a few people called him racist for it. And in January the World Health Organization was tweeting that they didn't see human to human transmission. Then them Italy numbers hit,
and the whole narrative became "Trump fukked up" , which he did, but the reality is EVERYBODY, INCLUDING THE SCIENTISTS, WERE DOWNPLAYING IT. Trump just happens to be the perfect racist idiot scape goat.
The biggest problem is if Hitler Jr Trump had got on tv talking about shutting down the borders and shutting down america because of a virus in China, American people minds would immediately go to "HOLOCAUST" and concentration camps. People would have been in the street forming little armies igniting a civil war. Because Trump has too much racist context behind him for his actions to be taken as "for the greater good". Blame the people that voted his ass in, too. Racism and white supremacy hurts them just as much as it hurts black people.