It was dumb for President Trump to tell Bob Woodward that he deliberately downplayed the coronavirus threat, but does anyone really want to find out what a President Joe Biden would do?
I can tell you, because he’s already said what he would do: He would give in to the hysteria, keep the country in a miserable lockdown, and never allow us to return to normal — and yes, no matter how many times Democrats deny it, returning to normal is an option.
In an interview in late August, Biden said, “We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus.”
What exactly does it mean to “control the virus”? It’s a highly contagious, airborne pathogen that not a single scientist has a grasp on — and yet Biden and other Democrats act as if we should be able to corner it and stomp it to death.
Shutting down the economy slowed the spread, buying useful time for our healthcare system and for the experts to learn more about what we were dealing with, but we saw the cost. Unemployment crept toward 20%, and as of now, we’re still at 8%, the number we saw for most of President Barack Obama’s depressingly weak recession recovery effort.
And we’re supposed to be OK with doing that again? Biden enthusiastically says sure!
“I would shut it down,” he has said. “I would listen to the scientists.”
And that’s what scientists are saying. But we won’t be electing a scientist in November. We’re electing a president whose job is to consider more than just the total number of deaths caused by a virus that so far has killed half of a tenth of a percentage of the population, and most of those people are 70 years old and up.
Our collective mission isn’t to ensure that not a single additional person dies of a freak new virus. It’s to move the country forward and mitigate the damage.
Trump is the one trying to get things moving again, to reopen schools and push people back to work (assuming they have a job or business to return to). Biden is talking about handcuffing us to our beds and sending out little government checks to keep us fed.
It’s all on Biden’s campaign website, in addition to stuff like this: “Create a ‘Safer for Shoppers’ program that gives compliant businesses a sign for their window so shoppers know they have done what they can to minimize the risk of exposure.”
Does that make anyone feel good?
No one can say with a straight face that Trump did a bang-up job handling the coronavirus response. But the absolute horror we might very well find ourselves in come January of next year is so much worse.
