Right. This obsession with government is austerity is part of why we're in this mess to begin with: A more robust response in January and February would have sa

Right. This obsession with government is austerity is part of why we're in this mess to begin with: A more robust response in January and February would have saved tens of thousands of lives and could have greatly reduced the scale of any lockdown measures. It would have meant spending tens of billions of $$$ towards testing and tracing infrastructure which in the age of trillion-dollar bailouts seems like a bargain.