Jesse said:Spanky2 said:I don’t know what more the President could have done about Covid that he didn’t do. My opinion is he has done an excellent job and approached the challenges as a businessman, culminating with the Warp Speed program for the vaccines.
Well don’t you think in the first week of February that he could have maybe just told everyone in the country the simple truth (besides just Woodward, who recorded the conversation for his stupid book) that it was way more deadly then the flu and that it was contracted simply by breathing the air, yes?
Could you just stick with what Trump said, and what Woodward said in his book? He didn't say it was "way more deadly" than the flu. He said "more deadly". Everyone paying attention knew the virus was airborne. That's where social distancing and the 6-feet spacing can from. What was not known for longer was that it could be transferred in aerosol form. Note that Trump didn't say aerosol; he said was that it could be contracted by breathing air.
"“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in the Feb. 7 call. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus."
WHO: "In a scientific brief posted to its website on 27 March, the World Health Organization said that there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, except in a handful of medical contexts, such as when intubating an infected patient."
[Maybe your favorite organization could have stopped that this earlier.]
"When public health officials say there isn't sufficient evidence to say that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, they specifically mean transported in virus-laden aerosols smaller than 5 micrometres in diameter. Compared with droplets, which are heftier and thought to travel only short distances after someone coughs or sneezes before falling to the floor or onto other surfaces, aerosols can linger in the air for longer and travel further."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00974-w