Are you... what?! May I ask for your sources? Could you find Merkel or Sadiq Khan's words in early March 2020 encouraging people to go out for crowded events?!
Meanwhile, a short reminder of Trump and Coronavirus in USA. I took the liberty to put Trump's statements that contradict statements he made shortly before in red.
"Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Trump campaign rallies continue
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Trump campaign rallies continue
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25h - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” + "This is a flu. This is like a flu" + "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28th “This is their new hoax.” (In a campaign rally)
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “
I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” + “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” + “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there.” + “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
THE U - TURN!!!!
March 13th - [Declared state of emergency]
March 17th - “This is a pandemic.
I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
April 4th 300,000 infected with COVID-19, 1300 deaths in one day.
Based on that, I would dare say that people with blinders on, that refuse to see how Trump downplayed the virus till the stock market crashed hold more dumb views than establishment politicians.