Not even remotely close. There are several other examples - including various circumstances in WW2 such as Pearl Harbor - that are still far beyond this, includ

Not even remotely close. There are several other examples - including various circumstances in WW2 such as Pearl Harbor - that are still far beyond this, including the 'intelligence' that got us into the Iraq War. The article's basis for claiming it over Pearl Harbor, is that it's... more glaring, whatever that is supposed to mean (it doesn't actually mean anything, it's an empty shell, you could plug anything in there; it's to enable the article). The Iraq War might easily end up having killed more people than Covid globally. Its cost to the US is at least three or four trillion dollars. Iraq was trivially avoided, far more so than Covid (as witnessed also by Italy and Spain at present, both of which are said to have highly functional universal healthcare systems; Germany is testing like crazy, is responding competently in most regards (eg low death rate), and is still seeing a very large ballooning of infections). Iraq is less glaring than Covid? Pure bullshit. The US could have limited the spread of Covid, and thus limited the deaths that will occur in ICUs around the country. It could not have prevented the extreme economic damage of a national lockdown, which much of the world is enduring regardless of their fast or slow reactions to the virus.