Remember the 2012 Ebola campaign?

Trump jumped on the Ebola outbreak in 2014 to try to affect the mid term election that year and there is plenty of evidence that it was effective.

I don’t think people appreciate just how bad Donald Trump was during the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Here’s a short list of the things he said, which were amplified (rather inexplicably) by the media. (Seriously, what was the reason for that?)
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 25, 2020

He said that the CDC was not being honest with how contagious the disease actually washttps://t.co/IuonSewiXq
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 25, 2020

He compared it to the AIDS epidemic because, you know, they’re both…. Diseases????

"If you look at the AIDS epidemic, it started very small and then all of a sudden it grew and grew and we have to this day, a massive problem with that.”
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 25, 2020

Then he said the government couldn’t be trusted to deal with it at all.

“Why would anybody trust our government to handle this crisis?”
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 25, 2020

Finally, he called out Obama for playing golf during the crisis, which seems quaint now. https://t.co/cGamkuWgv8
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 25, 2020

You can see why he’s nervous now. He knows what he did. And he knows it worked. The difference today is that unlike President Obama, who handled the Ebola outbreak by the book, Trump has destroyed the US response o pandemics and the government is now scrambling to do even a minimal response.

We may come through this ok. But it will no thanks to Trump. Of course, we can expect him to claim he single-handedly cured it if it is contained but that’s the price we will have to pay for having the good luck to escape disaster. And that’s what it’s going to take: luck.