I’m not here to argue about hydroxychloroquin. I commented that trump supporters have blind belief in positions he takes (hence obsession with hcq despite global medical consensus that it is ineffective or at least that potentials risks outweigh potential benefits), so when he minimizes the virus it has real world impacts. Someone way up the thread asked what should trump have done. I said he should at least stop lying to his supporters. You don’t calm a nation in crisis by denying the severity of the crisis. That leads to reckless behavior, especially by people who are inclined to believe him. You tell it as it is while reassuring and demonstrating that you are doing everything in your power. Trump chose the route he knows best – he saw it as a PR issue, not a time for leadership. The best spin he could put on it was that he was being a cheerleader. As inadequate as that would have been, it doesn’t even square with the way he unofficially undermined his own health officials and the efforts by governors to get the pandemic under control.
As to your recital of what you said when, you seem to acknowledge that you did in fact agree with my sarcastic portrayal of hcq conspiracy theorists, then called me a liar while simultaneously walking back half of what you said. That doesn’t make me a liar. At most, it means I’m not a mind reader.