The U.S. is not under lockdown. Far from it. Any lockdowns have been entirely done at the state and local level and even those are very spotty and a far cry fro

The U.S. is not under lockdown. Far from it. Any lockdowns have been entirely done at the state and local level and even those are very spotty and a far cry from the lockdowns in Italy at the moment and in China. Direct cash stimulus is one thing I'm definitely looking forward to. The other big one is the various cash infusions into key pillars of business (e.g. airlines). I don't think it's been an abject failure, but I think the U.S. response to the pandemic has been at best middling and full of whiplash in both rhetoric and policy pointing to a reactionary plan rather than any sort of proactive attempt to get out ahead of the curve. We didn't learn a lot of the lessons we could've from South Korea and Singapore (and at the very least why couldn't we have imported their testing).