Taking credit for good things that happen 'on my watch', but not bad things ... looks remarkably similar to privatizing profits and socializing costs.

Same old 3-card Monte. 'Look over here!'

I think you’re being downvoted because of that very first sentence (no matter how much I hate the guy, laying the blame 100% on his frail shoulders seems a bit hyperbolic).

But I don’t see what’s downvotable (if not agreeable) about the rest of what was said

In defense of my first statement: There's really nobody else to blame that I can see. Perhaps incompetence in the FDA and CDC management, but those are his people, not the rank and file. This is all had management and ignoring expertise, and there is only one person to blame for that.

Other countries with more developed healthcare systems and more competent leadership are staving this off quickly, which will let them return to full economic activity much more quickly with proper covid surveillance and tracking.

Here in the US, others have stepped up in the absence of the usual leadership that is provided by federal monitoring agencies. It's like we were attacked by invading ground forces, but the president had fired all the generals down to the lieutenants. We have other private individuals stepping up to our defense, but the normal defense infrastructure has been gutted.

"Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised"

https://apnews.com/ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a

"Quick left amid a bitter U.S. trade dispute with China when she learned her federally funded post, officially known as resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, would be discontinued as of September, the sources said. The U.S. CDC said it first learned of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia” of unexplained origin in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...