It’s blindingly obvious what my political position is just as it’s blindingly obvious what yours is without you having to state it, hence my sarcastic reply.

If someone states they’re not a Trump supporter, does that mean you can dismiss their views because you believe they’re biased? Does it work the other way around, and your views should immediately be dismissed by those who don’t agree with conservatives because they think you’re biased? If not, then what’s the point of people having to state their political views up front? Is it so you don’t have to actually deal with the substance of their arguments?

You accuse me and the OP of bringing no facts to the table. Please point out all these facts that you’ve provided because I seem to have missed them all. Or do you count your meaningless claim that the flu has killed more people as a ‘fact.’

Here are some facts for you:

• In spring 2018 the Trump administration dismantled the pandemic response team. That’s right, they axed the very team responsible for dealing with situations like this. His administration also made multiple cuts to public health agencies like the CDC, and in the months before the outbreak, got rid of a position responsible for monitoring disease outbreaks in China.
• The massive failure in testing or providing enough protective gear can be traced directly back to the decision to axe the White House National Security Council’s Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, which was set up by the Obama administration following the Ebola outbreak. Without proper testing it’s impossible to know how fast the virus is spreading of to have a true idea of how many people are infected.
• During the time he should have been warning people about the virus and putting measure in place to contain it, Trump consistently downplayed its seriousness, claiming it was no different to the flu, stating it will just magically disappear and telling people it was a hoax and a Democrat conspiracy. His exact words: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” His view that the death rate was much lower than experts were claiming was based on a ‘hunch.’ (his own words)
• Even as the death toll mounted, he continued to downplay it by stating that he wanted people to be back at work by Easter, based on zero evidence or expert advice. He has lied consistently about how many test kits will be rolled out. He has not pushed for the aggressive testing needed to bring it under control.
• He continues to contradict medical advice and push an anti-malaria drug as a treatment despite experts stating there’s no evidence it works. It’s been discovered he has financial stakes in the pharmaceutical company Sanofi which manufactures hydroxychloroquine. Some of Sanofi’s largest shareholders also happen to be major Republican donors.
• America fell way behind other developed nations when it came to testing which is why it now has the highest number of cases in the world — 400, 556 and rising, with 12,857 deaths so far. To this day people with symptoms still can’t get tested in many places. If the true number was known it would be much higher. As the Commander in Chief, Trump is directly responsible for what happens on his watch.

This is from the conservative National Review board:

[Trump] resisted making the response to the epidemic a priority for as long as he could — refusing briefings, downplaying the problem, and wasting precious time. He has failed to properly empower his subordinates and refused to trust the information they provided him — often offering up unsubstantiated claims and figures from cable television instead. He has spoken about the crisis in crude political and personal terms. He has stood in the way of public understanding of the plausible course of the epidemic, trafficking instead in dismissive clichés. He has denied his administration’s missteps, making it more difficult to address them.

I think the facts speak for themselves.