“I don't know and I don't think he [Redfield] knows,” Trump said. I don't think anybody knows with this. This is a very tricky deal. Everybody thought this summer it would go away and it would come back in the fall. Well, when the summer came, they used to say the heat -- the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? And then it might come back in the fall. So they got that one wrong.”
I always like the Everybody argument to paper over your own wrongness.
It's always bs, but excuses your misguidedness.
Actually Trump's initial answer is most accurate about the heat/summer. Nobody knew. Though Trump was sure for a while that even warm April weather would be enough to end the virus.
I'd read info from epidemiologists who had worked on MERS and noted that that coronavirus was spreading in 100 degree weather on the Arabian peninsula. So MERS researchers didn't expect CV-19 to fade away in summer.
Reminds me of W Bush, and how they kept saying that everybody thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But those who read a little deeper knew the aluminum tubes weren't the right type, the Niger yellowcake was phony, etc.
But sure, if you're poorly informed you can believe fairy tales.