The trouble is, there's no good reason to believe that it's even possible to get Covid-19 under control. The handful of success stories that everyone pointed to

The trouble is, there's no good reason to believe that it's even possible to get Covid-19 under control. The handful of success stories that everyone pointed to kept on turning out not to be: Singapore, arguably South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam... and the press just kept on moving on to the next one without ever changing the narrative. We've never contained a respiratory disease this contagious and sneaky before; historically, they've just run through the population and efforts have been focused on minimizing the damage. Unfortunately 2016 happened and now it's an election year again, so we need the idea that all this economic damage and death and lockdowns could've been avoided if only Trump wasn't in charge in order to ensure the right candidate wins later this year.