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Originally Posted by GirlySports
The prolonged first wave is inflicted by who?
They can hammer on Trump, and maybe I'm missing something here, but I think the Democrats were even slower in their response. Back in February. Biden called the ban on Chinese flights (on Jan 31) racist and Pelosi was visiting Chinatown business as late as Feb 28. Di Blasio was still telling people to eat out in March.
Weak institutions is the key to this problem, not a particular government in power. I'll give you a simple example. In Alberta, the AHS is the only single-bodied provincial health services. So they have one message which is direct and can mobilize. In Ontario in Quebec, they have separate regional bodies and trying to message and mobilize those has been a challenge. Most US states also have this problem.
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The current President.
Travel Bans after the disease was already prevelant in the US did not help. Travel Bans missing Iran we’re not going to help.
The CDC in the US failed miserably. Both as being a world leader influencing the WHO and at ensuring testing worked. The US has failed at Testing, Contact Tracing, PPE, and reopening. The lack of leadership at the presidential level led to states fighting over PPE and out bidding each other for it.
A lack of a National Response using the spending power as a whip to gain state compliance is a failure of both Congress and the Presidency.
But really it all started with who ever made the decision to make a made in USA testing solution that didn’t work. Bad early data and the inability to test led to the Initial outbreaks
But even if all of the above still happened and we accept that it was a new virus and difficult to get right this extended first Wave is clearly Trumps fault.
- He actively breaks social distancing protocols
- He is holding rallies as if nothing is wrong
- He has total Control of 30-40% of the populace and could have them doing things for America if he asked.
- by behaving like the virus doesn’t matter it means the population can behave like the virus doesn’t matter. When that happens you get the very predictable result. They shouldn’t have bothered to lock down if this was their planned path forward in the end.
Both siding the current US crisis is ridiculous.