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2nd biggest fear right now:

COVID-19 is contained due to good local and medical response, and never turns into a major issue. Like Y2K all over again, we beat something that WOULD have been a disaster if we hadn't dealt with it...

And Trump takes it as vindication that it was never really a threat in the first place, even if we really were in serious danger and just RESOLVED it without his bumbling "help."

And he uses it all to vindicate his conspiracy theories about Fake News and easily rides to victory in 2024 as America is, completely counterfactually, convinced he was right all along.

Or even worse: leftists are put in the posiiton of having to silent cheer for COVID-19 fatalities just to keep Trump from pulling the aforementioned shit, and we get caught at it, and they spin it into evidence that We Are Evil Plague-Bringers And Must Be Destroyed, maybe even use it to back rumors that we were spreading it on purpose Just To Hurt Poor Little Persecuted Donnie.

I don't think these are necessarily rational fears. I think there's a fair chance that we'll get through COVID-19 fine AND Trump will offer plenty of convincing evidence that he was never prepared to deal with a real public safety issue.

Just... be prepared to pivot on this one if this does turn out to, plague gods willing, fizzle.

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