For future reference, I said above that we can't blame Trump for the pandemic itself. However... on further review, that may actually be the case.
It wasn't just the US's domestic response that Trump destroyed. It was the US's key position in the international early warning network to spot new diseases before they even become epidemics, much less pandemics:
Had Trump and the GOP not destroyed the international monitoring system, would COVID19 have even made it out of Wuhan in the first place?
We will likely never know, but we have to now consider "maybe not" as the answer... and that is even more damning.
RE: An open letter to my conservative friends