I don’t understand the idea that Woodward releasing his tapes earlier wouldn’t have mattered

Hearing Trump’s own voice saying 5% death rate & young people are at serious risk in FEBRUARY when no one was taking it seriously or thinking ahead would have changed everything.
Every governor would have behaved differently if we’d known the danger was serious in February. Red & blue.

Maybe even other countries

Many of Trump’s followers would never have become so entrenched in the idea that it wasn’t real if they heard these words out of his own mouth.
People would have changed travel plans, made arrangements differently, PPE could have been stockpiled early, tests manufactured, we could have prepared.

And in the end, if only one life was saved, wouldn’t that have been worth a ding on Bob Woodward’s book sales?
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