Yeah, that paternalistic approach shouldn't have occured and was a mistake. The cdc failed on early testing too, clearly.
I'm not sure how that speaks to what trump did from April to now. It wasn't just masks either. He undermined lockdowns, distancing, masks, testing. You know, everything.
The lockdown models were laughably bad. Waste of money and time listening too. The distancing advice was arbitrary nonsense, wash your hands, oh shit no it's airborne distance, uh, 2m, yeah, except in these locations when 1m is fine, yeah, trust us we're scientists. Masks, won't get into that again.
Whatever his faults, Trump doesn't like people who work for him to be bullshitters, and he fires them. Combined with the protests in June. I would also say right, fuck all your bullshit, you have no answers, no plan, the stuff you tell me you have no idea what you're even talking about, so get fucked, we're opening up and making some money again before we head into a catastrophic depression. It was the right call. You couldn't sustain a lockdown for much longer, and wasted the one you had with the rioting.