Incidentally, no, we don't have 250k excess deaths this year, we have ~270k COVID-19 deaths this year, we're getting close to 400k excess deaths right now.
Why worry about it when cardiovascular illness, auto accidents, cancer, and aging take more lives?
I WORRY ABOUT THOSE TOO, aging is a disease we need to cure, but the thing about a pandemic like this is, it was preventable.
We're looking at between half a million and a million extra deaths this time next year due to Trump being a stupid fucking garbagesack, but that's just in the US!
Note that the Obama administration KNEW shit like this was going to happen sooner or later and had shit in place which they passed on to the next administration.
Had that been Hillary, it would have remained in place, the cooperation with Chinese infectious disease agencies would have been intact, this outbreak would have been identified quite possibly back in december before it even went wild in Wuhan.
Even if it had gotten that far, it would have definitely been shut down before it could spread further BECAUSE SHE KNEW HER FUCKING SHIT AND WAS EXACTLY THE RIGHT PERSON TO HANDLE THIS SHIT. The most qualified candidate ever, who would have done every right thing might have stopped this shit before it left China, saving AT LEAST 1.5 million lives.
Instead we get Dumbfuck McStupidturd and his Malevolent Menagerie of Mumblefucks and Morons.
They dismantled the early warning shit.
They gutted and shut down the pandemic response team.
They killed funding for anything related.
They would have gotten rid of fucking obamacare if they weren't constantly kicking themselves in the dicks.
Then when it started spreading around the world they did every wrong thing instead of anything to make it better.
Then when it got here they ignored it and did every thing they could to make it worse.
Then after watching all of this he somehow got over 70 million dumbfucks to jump at the chance to have another go around on the failboat because apparently we're just that goddamn fucking stupid here in the states.
The rest of the world saw the outbreak start and in that sort of situation they are used to having the US jump in and say "aight, we got this, who wants to help out?" and instead they find the president eating paint chips and punching himself in the nuts while blaming them for it.
Every fucking bit of this catastrophe is on him and his fucking supporters, and trying to diminish the magnitude of this requires ignoring none of it had to happen.
Sorry, literally everyone else on the planet, we fucking failed, we fucking failed hard, and everyone is gonna be paying for it.