Americans even lack the capacity to be humiliated about the facts: free market unpreparedness, and slow to react; government unpreparedness, slow to react and f

Americans even lack the capacity to be humiliated about the facts: free market unpreparedness, and slow to react; government unpreparedness, slow to react and frequently in denial; the death toll itself. Are Americans just overwhelmed with the obvious extent of the incompetency? Or is it cognitive dissonance? While Italy was at it's peak, Americans seemed to be "won't happen here, we're just better at this." At every turn there's goal post shifting. Oh well, they're just old people. Oh well, they just have pre-existing conditions. Oh well, whataboutism traffic accidents. Oh well, the economy matters more. Of all the things America seems to have lost, it's honesty. It can't even self-assess, let alone self-correct. For anything.